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Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Drama, Oratory, Delay

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The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Secret, Popularity, Seems

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Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

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Prayer, Angel, Eye

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People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

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Vanity, People, Vain

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It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

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Doors, Brain, Vices

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Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

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Enlargement, Invention, Deviation

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If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

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Purpose, Littles, Prime

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Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

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Children, Anchors, Small Child

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He who has loved often ... has loved never.

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Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

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Cement, All Things

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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

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Yesterday, Mind, Body

"Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.

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The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

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Wise, Fighting, Blow

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Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

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Revenge, Passion, Common

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The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

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Vices, World, Language

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The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

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Running, Long, People

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Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

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May, Fiction, Said

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Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

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Fall, Desire, Bed

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The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

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Clever, Mean, Men

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Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

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Men, Thinking, Errors

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Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

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Pain, Vanity, Suffering

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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

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Men, Unjust, Littles

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The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

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Weed, Heart, Men

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Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

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Love, Death, Shepherds

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Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

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Ambition, Eye, Air

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In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

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Sweet, Greek, Persuasion

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Born: May 25, 1803
Died: January 18, 1873
Occupation: Novelist
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