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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.

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

— Lord Byron

Friendship

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

— Lord Byron

Art

“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”

— Lord Byron

Death

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

— Lord Byron

Great

“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

“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

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

— Lord Byron

God

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

— Lord Byron

Best

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

— Lord Byron

Alone

“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

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

— Lord Byron

Great

“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

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

— Lord Byron

Movingon

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

— Lord Byron

Nature

“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

“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”

— Lord Byron

Future

“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”

— Lord Byron

Trust

“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”

— Lord Byron

Freedom

“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