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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton GCB GCSI GCIE PC (8 November 1831 – 24 November 1891) was an English statesman and poet (under the pen name Owen Meredith). He served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880, during which time Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.

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

Gives, Happiness, Jewel, Jewels, Toy, Winning

Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.

Sacred, Sorrow, Sufferer, Sufferers

Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.

Heaven, Human, Justice, Redress, Slow

Life hath set No landmarks before us.

Hath, Landmarks, Life, Set

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

Book, Books, Completion, Library, Museums, School

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

And Love, Birthday, Cling, Filled, Sin, Winning

Thought alone is eternal

Alone, Eternal, Thought

In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.

Fate, Life, Meetings, Seems

That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.

Greatness, Men, Praise, Self, Serves, Whole

Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love.

Approve, Fall, Falling In Love, French, Love, Quietly

There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish.

Devilish, Pain, Purpose

No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.

Influence, Rose, Set, Stars

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

Aught, Eye, Honest, Love At First Sight, Soul, Sweet

Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.

Combined, Good, Good Humor, Goodness, Humor

No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.

Firsts, Humility, Learn, Unless

They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.

Moving, Fall, Fate, Lose, Strive, Care

Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.

Humanize, Race, Sorrow, Tears, World

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.

Destiny, Hands, Unseen, Oft, Ken, Say

Rest is sweet after strife.

Rest, Strife, Sweet

Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Reckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?

Time, Sunset, Winning, Reckon, Renew, Lost

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