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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Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.
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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
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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
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I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
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Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?
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Not to admire is all the art I know.
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The best of prophets of the future is the past
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That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.