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
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
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Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow