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Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Father, Character, Men

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The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

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Stars, Atoms, Add

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

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Power, Calm, Aspect

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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

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Time, Lying, Eye

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Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

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Sports, Spring, Book

"The Last of the Barons". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Page 23), www.theguardian.com. 1877.

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To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Death, Parent, Beloved

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To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.

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Death, Animal, Views

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Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

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Death, Cells, Graves

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As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

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Death, Mother, Children

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A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.

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Fashion, Simplicity, Gentleman

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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

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Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

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Mind, Lasts, Pleasure

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Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

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Character, Names, May

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

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Friendship, Gratitude, Real

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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

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Love, Pregnancy, Wish

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In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.

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Book, Views, Small Villages

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There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.

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Fashion, Book, Reading

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In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

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Passion, Heart, Solitude

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Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

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Love, Sacrifice, Bless

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He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

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Children, Lying, Eye

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Grief alone can teach us what is man.

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Grief, Sadness, Men

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Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

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Life, Wise, Philosophy

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They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

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Rocks, Age, Shells

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A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

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Art, Law, Imagination

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Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

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Heart, Home, Tree

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