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 More Quotes by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton More Quotes From 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. Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton fate men life 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 jewels winning happiness 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 passion book art 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 self men 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 and-love winning birthday 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 night believe 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 ocean truth lying No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere. Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton influence stars rose We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton instruments destiny heaven The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not. Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton nettles world Thought alone is eternal. Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton eternal 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 museums book school When time is flown, how it fled Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton asks moments time There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton men life death Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love. Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton falling-in-love love fall We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain. Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton experience justice years However we pass Time, he passes still, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton time giving past Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned. Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton thyself knowledge 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 strong purpose life We may live without friends; we may live without books Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton food men book
