Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Quotes

British Viceroy of India, diplomat and author (1831–1891)

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (8 November, 1831 – 24 November, 1891) was an English statesman, serving as Viceroy of India; and poet, under the pen name of Owen Meredith.

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Pen Names: Owen Meredith

Native Name: Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1. Earl of Lytton

Alternative Names: Robert Bulwer-Lytton • Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton • Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton • Edward Robert, Earl of Lytton • E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton

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Far up the wave
The clouds that lay piled in the golden heat
Were turn'd into types of the ancient mountains
In an ancient land.

Life hath set
No landmarks before us.

To all facts there are laws.
The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

The man who seeks one thing in life and but one
May hope to achieve it before life is done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.

We are but as the instrument of heaven.
Our work is not design, but destiny.

That's best
Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.

Who knows nothing base
Fears nothing known.

'Tis more brave
To live, than to die.

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