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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

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

— Lord Byron

Happiness

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

— Lord Byron

Alone

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”

— Lord Byron

Future

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

— Lord Byron

Society

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

— Lord Byron

Alone

“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

“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

— Lord Byron

Love

“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

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

— Lord Byron

Nature

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Fear

“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

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Art

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

— Lord Byron

Death

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

— Lord Byron

Freedom

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

— Lord Byron

Religion