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

— Lord Byron

Alone

All Quotes by Lord Byron

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

— Lord Byron

Love

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

— Lord Byron

Nature

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

— Lord Byron

Religion

“Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.”

— Lord Byron

Jealousy

“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.”

— Lord Byron

Business

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Alone

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

— Lord Byron

Trust

“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.”

— Lord Byron

Fear

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

— Lord Byron

Alone

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

— Lord Byron

Friendship

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

— Lord Byron

Art

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

— Lord Byron

Change

“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”

— Lord Byron

Future

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

— Lord Byron

Movingon

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

— Lord Byron

Fear

“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!”

— Lord Byron

Poetry

“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

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