Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Quotes
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There's no weapon that slays
Its victim so surely (if well aim'd) as praise.
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.
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
When time is flown, how it fled
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings.
Grasp it firmly, it stings not.
Grasp it firmly, it stings not.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The world is filled with folly and sin,
And Love must cling, where it can, I say:
For Beauty is easy enough to win;
But one is n't loved every day.
And Love must cling, where it can, I say:
For Beauty is easy enough to win;
But one is n't loved every day.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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