Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer ( 10 of 46 )
Who that has loved knows not the tender tale
Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?
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Who that has loved knows not the tender tale
Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?
- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,
Arm thyself for the truth!
Arm thyself for the truth!
Ambition has no rest!
Ambition has no rest!
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in
his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy,
he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every
eye looking on finds its own.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every
eye looking on finds its own.
I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
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Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize
At last the fleeting Now?
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners
of nature.
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners
of nature.
All books grow homilies by time; they are
Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
All books grow homilies by time; they are
Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
