Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton on Fate
1831–1891 England
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In life there are meetings which seem
Like a fate.
Lucile (1860)
They only fall, that strive to move,
Or lose, that care to keep.
We are but as the instrument of heaven.
Our work is not design, but destiny.
Clytemnestra and Other Poems (1855)
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.
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)
We are our own fates. Our own deeds
Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made
Not for men's creeds,
But men's actions.
Unseen hands delay
The coming of what oft seems close in ken,
And, contrary, the moment, when we say
"'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.