Quotes from Lucile — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
1831–1891 England
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That's best
Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
Lucile (1860)
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.
Lucile (1860)
We are our own fates. Our deeds
Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made not for men's creeds,
But men's actions.
Lucile (1860)
'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.
Lucile (1860)
Alas! must it be ever so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?
Lucile (1860)
Let any man show the world that he feels
Afraid of its bark and ’t will fly at his heels:
Let him fearlessly face it, ’t will leave him alone:
But ’t will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone.
Lucile (1860)
Rest is sweet after strife.
Lucile (1860)
Thought alone is eternal.
Lucile (1860)