Knew Know Quotes by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

1 Knew Know quote by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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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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More by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Words, however, are things.

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.

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

When time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell, Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.

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

No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

We are but as the instrument of Heaven.

Life hath set No landmarks before us.

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.

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

The things which must be must be for the best.