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Lord Byron
Age: 36 †
Born: 1788
Born: January 22
Died: 1824
Died: April 19
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Baron Byron
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Military Personnel
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London
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George Gordon Byron
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Noel Byron
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Jerzy Gordon Byron
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
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Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.
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Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.
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Happiness was born a twin.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!
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A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty
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He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
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The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made each zone Obeys thee thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
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Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
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The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.
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Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!
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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
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