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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
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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.
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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.
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Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.
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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?
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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.
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I loved you ere I knew you know you now, And having known you, love you better still.
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In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.
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Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.
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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.
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No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.
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Sorrows humanize our race tears are the showers that fertilize the world.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
We are but as the instrument of Heaven.
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We may live without friends we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
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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
There is purpose in pain otherwise it were devilish.
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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
There is a pleasure that is born of pain.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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.
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Life is good, but not life in itself.
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No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.
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