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Lord Byron föddes den January 22nd 1788 och dog den 19 April 1824 - engelsk diktare, dog som frivillig i det grekiska frihetskriget.
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 One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

 One hates an author that's all author

 One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer

 Opinions are made to be changed -or how is truth to be got at?

 Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.

 Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

 Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate.

 Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

 Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure

 Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure

 Poetry should only occupy the idle.

 Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.

 Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

 Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory: With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story, Graced with some merit, and with more effrontery, 'His country's pride,' he came down to

 Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.


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