Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (8 November 1831 – 24 November 1891) was an English statesman, serving as Viceroy of India; and poet, under the pen name of Owen Meredith.

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• Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.
  • "Γνωι Σεαυτον" ("Know Thyself"), in The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith (1867), Vol. I, p. 247

• 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 is n't loved every day.
  • Changes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God.
  • The Artist, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• The things which must be must be for the best.
  • Imperfection, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet!When woman joins herself to man.
  • The Wanderer, Prologue, Stanza 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• The ages roll Forward; and forward with them draw my soul Into Time’s infinite sea. And to be glad or sad I care no more; But to have done and to have been before I cease to do and be!
  • The Wanderer, Book iv, Stanza 9, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.
  • Last Words, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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