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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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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 (1831–1891) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love Fancies", in The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith, Vol. I (London: Chapman & Hall, 1867), p. 111.
“The thing which must be, must be for the best.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Changes", stanza vi, in The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith, Vol. I (1867), p. 213.
“Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Artist", stanza 41, in The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith, Vol. I (1867), p. 243.
“For only by knowledge of that which is not Thyself shall thyself be learn'd.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Γνωθι Σεαυτον" ("Know Thyself"), in The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith, Vol. I (1867), p. 247.
“Who can undo What time hath done? who can win back the wind? Beckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Orval, or The Fool of Time, Second Epoch, in Orval, or The Fool of Time and Other Imitations and Paraphrases (London: Chapman & Hall, 1869), p. 39.
“We are but as the instrument of heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Far up the wave The clouds that lay piled in the golden heat Were turn'd into types of the ancient mountains In an ancient land.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The first two lines of this quote are cited in the full title of Harry John Johnson's painting, "Sunset in the Atlantic". See T.M.P. Duggan, "An Echo of Patara and the Xanthus Valley Reflected in Two Works by Harry John…
“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.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a pleasure which is born of pain.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The unknown Is life to love, religion, poetry.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, well! 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 (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And the jasmin-flower in her fair young breast: (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmin-flower!) And the one bird singing alone in his nest: And the one star over the tower.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is fill'd 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 (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the lives of most women and men 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 (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A night of tears! for the gusty rain Had ceased, but the eaves were dripping yet; And the moon look'd forth, as tho' in pain, With her face al white and wet.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ages roll Forward; and, forward with them, draw my soul Into Time’s infinite sea. And to be glad or sad I care no more: But to have done, and to have been, before I cease to do and be!”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Confession and Apology", All the Year Round, Vol. ii New Series (September 11, 1869), p. 349; The Wanderer, Book iv: Exile, "A Confession and Apology", in The Wanderer and Other Poems (London: Chapman & Hall, 1876), p…
“Words, however, are things: and the man who accords To his language the license to outrage his soul Is controll'd by the words he disdains to control.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and ’t will fly at his heels: Let him fearlessly face it, ’t will leave him alone: But ’t will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whene'er I hear French spoken as I approve, I feel myself quietly falling in love.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 can not 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 (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We gain Justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Twas a hand White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland. The hand of a woman is often, in youth, Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless in truth; Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm, Or as sorrow has cross'd the life-line in its palm.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are what we must, And not what we would be. I know that one hour Forestalls not another. The will and the power Are diverse.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rest is sweet after strife.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When life leaps in the veins, when it beats in the heart, When it thrills as it fills every animate part, Where lurks it? How works it?.. we scarcely detect it.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's no weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aim'd) as praise.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know There are moments when silence, prolong'd and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No true love can be without Its dread penalty—jealousy.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alas! must it be ever so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To all facts there are laws. The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are our own fates. Our deeds Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made not for men's creeds, But men's actions.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life hath set No landmarks before us.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thought alone is eternal.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Tis more brave To live, than to die.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As pure as a pearl, And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No star ever rose And set, without influence somewhere.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is good; but not life in itself.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But, however we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.”
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Recorded in: Vol. ii, Book viii: From 1525 to 1789, "The Dead Pope", p. 112.
“Unseen hands delay The coming of what seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.”
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Recorded in: Vol. ii, Book viii: From 1525 to 1789, "Thomas Müntzer to Martin Luther", p. 149.