"Alas! must it ever be so? Do we……" — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
"Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?"
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33 Quotes by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
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Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
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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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There is a pleasure that is born of pain.
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As…
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Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
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No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and…
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The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is…
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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…
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We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live…
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Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper,…
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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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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
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