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Lord Byron

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Friendship is love without his wings


— Lord Byron


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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.


— Lord Byron


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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.


— Lord Byron


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Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.


— Lord Byron


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Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.


— Lord Byron


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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.


— Lord Byron


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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.


— Lord Byron


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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.


— Lord Byron


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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.


— Lord Byron


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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.


— Lord Byron


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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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