Lord Byron
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1788
joy longer memory sorrow
Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
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I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
music sweet voice waters
Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth
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Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
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Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate.
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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
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For what were all these country patriots born? / To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
losing men opinions rendered
For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager
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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming.
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He was the mildest mannered man / That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
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He who loves not his country, can love nothing
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He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find, The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below
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He had written much blank verse, and blanker prose.