Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 16

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• The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hands, Veils, Faces

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• More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Forgiveness, Running, Kindness

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• We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Peace, Years

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• A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Goodbye, Dream, Farewell

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• The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hope, Past, Night

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• The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Thinking, Sight, People

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• Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Ideas, Roots

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• In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Letting Go, Pain, Disappointment

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• What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Natural Talent, Purpose, Want

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• There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Men, Sincere

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• Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Spiritual, Numbers, Safety

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• Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Patience, Be Patient, Passive

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• The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fate, Zeal, Frenzy

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• Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weed, Giving, Smoking

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• Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Youth, Surprise

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• Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May
  And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Rose, May, December

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• One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vices, Fifty, Worn

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• We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Achievement, Degrees, Strive

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• It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Time, Heart, Hair

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  And Love, Midnight, Youth

  Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

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• It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Lying, Rain, Dark

  "Paul Clifford". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1830.

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• Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kings, Son, Issues

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• Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Uprising, Our World, Long

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• It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sympathy, Mind, May

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• Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Eye, Heart, Punishment

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