Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Quotes

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• In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Fate, Meetings, Seems

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• The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Regret, Ambition, Men

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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• Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Inspirational, Book, Masters

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• Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Happiness, Winning, Jewels

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• We may live without friends; we may live without books
  But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Food, Book, Men

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Sweet, Eye, Love At First Sight

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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• That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Greatness, Men, Self

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• We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Life, Fate, Men

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• I loved you ere I knew you; know you now,
  And having known you, love you better still.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Life, Love You, I Loved You

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• No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Stars, Rose, Influence

  "Lucile". Book by Owen Meredith, Part II, Canto VI, 1860.

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• We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Art, Book, Passion

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Dream, Believe, Night

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• Rest is sweet after strife.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Sweet, Strife

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (Part I, Canto VI, Stanza 25), 1860.

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• The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  World, Nettles

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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• There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Pain, Purpose, Devilish

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• We are but as the instrument of Heaven.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Destiny, Heaven, Instruments

  "Clytemnestra". Poem by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (Part XIX), 1859.

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• The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Birthday, Winning, And Love

  "Changes". Poem by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, published in John Bartlett "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Thinking, Ideas, Yesterday

  "Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.

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• Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Truth, Lying, Ocean

  "Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture" by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1862.

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• It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Book, School, Museums

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• Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Humor, Goodness, Good Humor

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• No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Humility, Firsts

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• Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Race, Sorrow, Tears

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• There's a moment when all would go smooth and even,
  If only the dead could find out when
  To come back, and be forgiven.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Forgiveness, Moments, Smooth

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• When time is flown, how it fled
  It is better neither to ask nor tell,
  Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Time, Moments, Asks

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