Lord George Byron
English poet
Lived from: 1788 - 1824
Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Born: 22 january 1788 Died: 19 april 1824
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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine - and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so -and now the dross is coming.
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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.
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
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I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...
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I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
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I am so changeable, being every thing by turns and nothing long,— I am such a strange mélange of good and evil.
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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