The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to… - Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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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.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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

Alternative Names: Owen Meredith • 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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We are what we must,
And not what we would be. I know that one hour
Forestalls not another. The will and the power
Are diverse.

In the lives of most women and men
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.

We gain
Justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

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