Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 14

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• What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Struggle, Ignorance, Fate

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• Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Team, Men, Wife

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• Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sweet, Stars, Eye

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• Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fate, Lazy, Rising

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• It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Moving, Games, Rivals

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• The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Principles, Social, Graves

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• There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Greatness, Men, Dupes

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• There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Age, Wells

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• The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Gallant, Certain

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• Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Believe, Character, Past

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• My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Father, Adventure, Twenties

  "The Coming Race" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ch. 1, 1870.

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• More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Eye, Library

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• What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Purpose, Want

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• Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hope, Grief, Waste

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• The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Real, Artist, Imagination

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• Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beauty, Art, Curves

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• Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Two, Waiting

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• The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Eye, Violet, Vibrations

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• Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Education, Father, Men

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• Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Time, Wells, My Friends

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• Laws die, books never.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Law

  "Richelieu" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Act I, scene 2, 1839.

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• We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beautiful, Dark, Feelings

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• Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Giving, Tree, Shelter

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• Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Air, Castles, Cost

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• We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Reading, Book, Fool

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