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Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The man who seeks one, and but one, thing in life may hope to achieve it; but…

The man who seeks one, and but one, thing in life may hope to achieve it; but he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, only reaps, from the hopes which he sows, a harvest of barren regrets.

In today’s wordsThe person who seeks one thing, and only one, in life may hope to achieve it; the one who seeks everything reaps only a harvest of barren regrets from the hopes he sows.

Edward Bulwer-LyttonCommonly attributed
Source
From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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