We are our own fates. Our deeds Are our doomsmen. Man's lif… - Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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We are our own fates. Our deeds
Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made not for men's creeds,
But men's actions.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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About Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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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'Twas a hand
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland.
The hand of a woman is often, in youth, Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has cross'd the life-line in its palm.

Unseen hands delay
The coming of what seems close in ken,
And, contrary, the moment when we say
"'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

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

We are our own fates. Our deeds Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made not for men's creeds, But men's actions. - Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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