Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

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• Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Purpose, Genius, Fine

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• It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

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  Friendship, Character, Men

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• Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

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  Revenge, Anger, Concealed

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• A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

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  Heart, Sunshine, Destiny

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• The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

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  Magic, Tongue, Language

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• Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

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  Prayer, Tears, Pharisees

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• Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

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  Sweet, Eye, Sleep

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• Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

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  Heart, Ambition, Errors

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• And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Faithful, Earth

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• Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

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  Kindness, Light, Air

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• Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

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  Fate, Agents, Providence

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• When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

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  Helping Others, World, Pounds

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• Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

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  Dream, Prophet, Just A Dream

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• Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

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  Happiness, Inner Peace, Virtue

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• There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

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  Aristocracy, Wealth, Democratic

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• Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

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  Air, Castles, Cost

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• It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

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  Evil, Literature, Doom

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• Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Death, Art, Men

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• Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

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  Nature, Differences, Common Sense

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• He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

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  Retirement, Retribution, Gifted

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• Law dies, books never.

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  Book, Law, Dies

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• A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

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  Men, He Man, Merciful

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• In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

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  Failure, Fate, Lexicon

  Richelieu act 2, sc. 2 (1839)

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• Laws die, books never.

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  Book, Reading, Law

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• Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

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  Heart, Dark, Men

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