Character Quote by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.”

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Words, however, are things.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

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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.

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

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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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We are but as the instrument of Heaven.

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Life hath set No landmarks before us.

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