George Gordon Byron
England
22 Jan 1788 // 19 Apr 1824
Poet
22 Jan 1788 // 19 Apr 1824
Poet
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all
I have always believed that all things depended upon fortune, and nothing upon ourselves
I cannot help thinking that the menace of hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below
Friendship is love without his wings
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; my greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour
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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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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