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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Quotes: When time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell, Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.
         

When time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell, Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.


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Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.



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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.



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The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.



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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.



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We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.



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However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.



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No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.



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The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.





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