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• Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Love, Rose, Stem

  Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

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• Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Sorrow, Sacred, Sufferers

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• Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Justice, Heaven, Redress

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• There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Pain, Pleasure, Born

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• Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Love, Falling In Love, Fall

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• Who can undo
  What time hath done? Who can win back the wind?
  Reckon 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

  Time, Sunset, Winning

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• 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.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Destiny, Hands, Unseen

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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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• Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Fighting, Groundhog Day, Light

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• 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.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Time, Past, Giving

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• There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Life, Death, Men

  Clytemnestra Pt XX

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• Life hath set
  No landmarks before us.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Life, Landmarks

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• Life is good, but not life in itself.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Life, Life Is Good, Life Is

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• Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Knowledge, Thyself

  "The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith, Volume 1 (Know Thyself)". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1867.

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• 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

  Life, Strong, Purpose

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• Thought alone is eternal.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Eternal

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

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• Words, however, are things.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (Part I, Canto II, Stanza 6), 1860.

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• The things which must be must be for the best.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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

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• Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Change, Thinking, Years

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (Part II, Canto II, Stanza 3), 1860.

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• Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Art, Men, Made

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

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• That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Providence, Resignation, Mines

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• Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Character, Innocence, Fear Nothing

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• No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Jealousy, Penalties, Dread

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• They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Moving, Fall, Fate

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