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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.

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

— Lord Byron

Happiness

All Quotes by Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

— Lord Byron

Friendship

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”

— Lord Byron

Knowledge

“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”

— Lord Byron

Age

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

— Lord Byron

Happiness

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

— Lord Byron

Love

“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”

— Lord Byron

Great

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

— Lord Byron

Great

“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

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

— Lord Byron

Religion

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”

— Lord Byron

Alone

“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”

— Lord Byron

God

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”

— Lord Byron

Life

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”

— Lord Byron

Great

“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.”

— Lord Byron

Best

“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

“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

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

— Lord Byron

Architecture

“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

— Lord Byron

Nature

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

— Lord Byron

Friendship