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George Gordon Byron, the 6th Baron Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron, was a leading figure of the Romantic movement and an iconic poet whose works continue to resonate. Born on January 22, 1788, in London, he became famous for his passionate verses and tumultuous personal life, marked by scandal and adventure. Byron's masterpieces, including "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and "Don Juan," evoke intense emotions and showcase his groundbreaking exploration of the human experience. His legacy endures as a symbol of literary rebellion and romantic idealism.
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"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."
Lord Byron"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."
Lord Byron"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."
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"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."
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"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
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"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"
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"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."
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"I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness."
Lord Byron"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"Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons."
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"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
Lord Byron"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence."
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"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."
Lord Byron"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."
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