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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)
We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
When time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell, Leave the dead moments to bury their dead. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby. (Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton)
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Then did I feel as one who, much perplext, Led by strange legends and the light of stars Over long regions of the midnight sand Beyond the red tract of the Pyramids, Is suddenly drawn to look upon the sky From sense of unfamiliar light, and sees Reveal'd against the constellated cope The great cross of the South. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
You know There are moments when silence, prolong'd and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
'Tis more brave To live, than to die. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton