Byron quote

[BSA350]

Anyone know the source of the Byron quote: "Anyone who joy would win, must share it; happiness was born a twin" ?

Thanks.

[Count-A-Strong]

I would imagine the source of a quote by Byron would be.................Byron.

[BSA350]

Thanks, Arthur. I don't suppose you know who wrote Beethoven's 5th by any chance?

[another-view]

What a stupid question. This makes mine look like intense political debate.

[jno]

I've googled till I'm blue in the face and the poem it came from isn't mentioned anywhere (though the correct version seems to be 'All who would win joy must share it...'). I suppose you'll just have to read his collected works. Sorry.

[MarkRae]

It was the same bloke who wrote Handel's Messiah...

[shaneystar2]

Well, yes.. it's by Byron and it's from Don Juan .Canto 11 Stanza 86.

[BSA350]

Thanks, Shaneystar 2, I'm very impressed with your Byronic knowledge/ internet research skills. Like jno I googled it till I was metaphorically blue in the face, but to no avail. Thanks too to jno for your efforts on my behalf!

[spacechimp]

http://en.wikiquote.o.../Don_Juan_%28Byron%29

Says Canto II Stanza 172.

[spacechimp]

(It would obviously be totally inappropriate for me to suggest that shaneystar read II as 11 and misunderstood that the quotes preceded the references on the wikisource page...)

[spacechimp]

"Misunderstood" should read "didn't realize". Oops.

[BSA350]

Much thanks, Spacechimp, I have just checked and indeed it is as you say - Canto II, Stanza CLXXXII. These confusions wouldn't arise if they didn't insist on taking the little horizontal bars off the top and bottom of the capital i !