Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Quotes

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Similarity in affliction makes us brothers even to the unknown.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
To all facts there are laws, The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
It [archaeology] is to the skeleton of a former age that archaeology restores the flesh and the sinews and the lineaments that distinguish it from the countless centuries of which it is a link, clothes it in the very garments that it wore, and rebuilds the very home in which it dwelt.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Nature is the great agent of the external universe...

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Archaeology has been called the handmaid of history; and, indeed, without its aid, history would as little represent the particular time it endeavors to recall as the drawing of a skeleton would represent the features and the form by which the individual human being was recognised while in life.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Science is not a club, it is an ocean; it is open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings. Who can exhaust the sea? who say to intellect, "the deeps of philosophy are preoccupied?"

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Trees that, like the poplar, lift upwards all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees that most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lowlier droop their boughs.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Then did I feel as one who, much perplext, Led by strange legends and the light of stars Over long regions of the midnight sand Beyond the red tract of the Pyramids, Is suddenly drawn to look upon the sky, From sense of unfamiliar light, and sees, Reveal'd against the constellated cope, The great cross of the South.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Chemistry, Soldier, trust me, is a science Which now-a-days we sceptred students need To study more than your rough art of war.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
"Friend, I believe in miracles? " said he, "And I believe in chemistry as well..."

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Nature alone is always grand, in her terrors as well as her charms.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Archeology is not only the handmaid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

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?

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Nature, my mother nature! as the infant in the harsh slavery of schools pines for home, I yearned within the dark walls of cities, and amidst the hum of unfamiliar men, for thy sweet embrace - and thy bosom whereon to lay my head, and weep wild tears at my will!

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me then thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
I loved you ere I knew you; know you now,
And having known you, love you better still.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Let any man show the world that he feels
Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels:
Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone:
But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Those true eyes
Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise
The sweet soul shining through them.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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
The ages roll
Forward; and forward with them draw my soul
Into Time's infinite sea.
And to be glad or sad I care no more;
But to have done and to have been before
I cease to do and be!

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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
There's no weapon that slays
Its victim so surely (if well aim'd) as praise.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton