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Lord Byron

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Lord Byron (1788–1824) was an English poet and leading figure of the Romantic movement. His works — including *Don Juan* and *Childe Harold's Pilgrimage* — combined passionate emotion with biting satire. Byron's adventurous life and magnetic personality made him the archetype of the Romantic hero and one of the most celebrated poets in English literature.

“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”

— Lord Byron

Politics

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“Absence - that common cure of love.”

— Lord Byron

Love

“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”

— Lord Byron

Alone

“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”

— Lord Byron

Religion

“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”

— Lord Byron

Nature

“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.”

— Lord Byron

Men

“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?”

— Lord Byron

Change

“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”

— Lord Byron

Happiness

“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”

— Lord Byron

Age

“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”

— Lord Byron

Society

“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”

— Lord Byron

Politics

“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”

— Lord Byron

Art

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

— Lord Byron

Friendship

“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”

— Lord Byron

God

“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”

— Lord Byron

Future

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”

— Lord Byron

Death

“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”

— Lord Byron

Hope

“They never fail who die in a great cause.”

— Lord Byron

Great