George Gordon Byron
England
22 Jan 1788 // 19 Apr 1824
Poet
22 Jan 1788 // 19 Apr 1824
Poet
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None are all evil
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
He makes a solitude, and calls it peace
Fame is the thirst of youth
Experience, that chill touchstone whose sad proof reduces all things from their hue
Despair defies even despotism
Circumstance, that unspiritual god and miscreator, makes and helps along our coming evils
All our advantages are those of fortune; birth, wealth, health, beauty, are her accidents; and when we cry out against fate, it were well we should remember fortune can take naught save what she gave
All is to be feared where all is to be lost
Adversity is the first path to truth
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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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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