| 33 Famous Quotes by Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
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“The first wan cowslip, wet
With tears of the first morn.”
Cowslips Quotes Source: Ode to a Starling
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“Through tall cowslips nodding near you,
Just to touch you as you pass.”
Cowslips Quotes Source: Song
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“As pure as a pearl,
And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.”
Chastity Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto VI, st. 16)
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“In life there are meetings which seem
Like a fate.”
Meeting Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto III, st. 8)
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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?”
Shadows Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto II, st. 5)
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“God be thank'd that the dead have left still
Good undone for the living to do--
Still some aim for the heart and the will
And the soul of a man to pursue.”
Work Quotes Source: Epilogue
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“No life
Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.”
Influence Quotes Source: Lucile (pr. II, canto VI, st. 40)
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“No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.”
Influence Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto VI)
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“We are but as the instrument of Heaven.
Our work is not design, but destiny.”
Destiny Quotes Source: Clytemnestra (pt. XIX)
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“We are what we must
And not what we would be. I know that one hour
Assures not another. The will and the power
Are diverse.”
Destiny Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. I, canto III, st. 19)
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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.”
Destiny Quotes Source: Thomas Munster to Martin Luther (l. 382)
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“They only fall, that strive to move,
Or lose, that care to keep.”
Destiny Quotes Source: The Wanderer (bk. III, Futility, st. 6)
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“Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter.”
Glowworms Quotes Source: Au Cafe (XXXIX)
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“Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower,
A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;
'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour,
And the eldest was born half an hour ago.”
Midges Quotes Source: Midges
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“'Tis more brave
To live, than to die.”
Bravery Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. I, canto VI, st. 11)
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“That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:
Whole in himself.”
Greatness Quotes Source: A Great Man
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“Who seeks for aid
Must show how service sought can be repaid.”
Service Quotes Source: Siege of Constantinople
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“The things which must be, must be for the best,
God helps us do our duty and not shrink,
And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.”
Duty Quotes Source: Imperfection
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“The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life be 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.”
Ambition Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. I, canto II, st. 8)
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“The sylphs and ondines
And the sea-kings and queens
Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city,
As lovely as seems
To some bard in his dreams,
The soul of his latest love-ditty.”
Venice Quotes Source: Venice
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“Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs,
When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs
And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life
Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!
But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone
A man should sit down to dinner, each one
Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil
With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,
The chances are ten against one, I must own,
He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.”
Cookery Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. I, canto II, st. 27)
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“To all facts there are laws,
The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.”
Cause Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto III, st. 8)
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“News, news, news, my gossiping friends,
I have wonderful news to tell,
A lady by me her compliments sends;
And this is the news from Hell!”
News Quotes Source: News
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“O be very sure
That no man will learn anything at all,
Unless he first will learn humility.”
Humility Quotes Source: Vanini (l. 327)
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“Don't be so humble--you are not that great.”
Humility Quotes Source: Vanini (l. 327)
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Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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