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Lord Byron

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.


— Lord Byron


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


— Lord Byron


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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


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Who loves, raves.


— Lord Byron


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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.


— Lord Byron


#any #confirms #day #every #every day

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.


— Lord Byron


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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.


— Lord Byron


#hour #into #itself #life #long

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.


— Lord Byron


#down #hate #look #mankind #must

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.


— Lord Byron


#discernment #finding #great #her #merit

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.


— Lord Byron


#about #am #course #happiness #i






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Described as "a woman without judgment or self-command" Catherine either spoiled and indulged her son or aggravated him with her capricious stubbornness. But the more I reflect the more I am bewildered to assign any cause for this precocity of affection. Affairs and scandals

In 1812 Byron embarked on a well-publicised affair with the married Lady Caroline Lamb that shocked the British public.

Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts numerous love affairs rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister and self-imposed exile. George Gordon Byron 6th Baron Byron later George Gordon Noel 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) commonly known simply as Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence for which Greeks revere him as a national hero.

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