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Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love, Deeds, Neighbor

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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Inspirational, Enthusiasm For Life, Victory

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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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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?

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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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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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Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?

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Dream, Boys, Pyramids

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Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Business, Done, Ill

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

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Heart, Age, Wells

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When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

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World, Faces, Flattery

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Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Giving, May, Chance

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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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Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Erring, Purgatory, Labor

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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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O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Art, Women, Book

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Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

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Strong, Soul, Fusion

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Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Husband, Wife, Firsts

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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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Read to live, not live to read.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Character, Pawns

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In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Lying, Secret, Belief

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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

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Real, Artist, Imagination

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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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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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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.

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Eye, Violet, Vibrations

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