British - Poet | January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
Lord Byron
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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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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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
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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.
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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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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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