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In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

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Men, Soul, Needs

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To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Heart, Character, Men

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Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Long, Long Day

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Poverty has strange bedfellows.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Poverty, Strange, Strange Bedfellows

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Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Divorce, Two, Ships

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 504-05, A Lament, line 10, 1922.

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Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

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Risk, Revolution, Made

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If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

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Heart, Credit, Letters

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 250-52, What Will He Do With It? (1858), Book II. Title of Ch, XI., 1922.

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The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

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Beauty, Men, Should

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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

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Looks, Debt, Youth

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At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

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Tongue, Ants, Prey

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Law dies, books never.

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Book, Law, Dies

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What's money without happiness?

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Money

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There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Feelings, Tongue, Lovers

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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

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Proportion, Valuable

"Caxtoniana". Essay XIV, 1863.

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In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

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Country, Poverty, Crime

England and the English (1833)

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Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Heaven, One Day, Would Be

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Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

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Men, Funeral, Sorrow

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The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

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Thinking, Men, Tobacco Smoking

"Night and Morning". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, ch. vi, 1841.

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To live
On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces,
Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all
Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for;
This is to be a trickster; and to filch
Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth,
Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend,
You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me,
Is what, when done with a less dainty grace,
Plain folks call "Theft.

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Art, Mean, Men

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Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Truth Is, Broads, Duty

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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

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Writing, Poetry, Temples

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You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

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Poetry, Speak, Feds

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Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

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Fate, Providence, Servant

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Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

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Poverty, Ignoble, Relative

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In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

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Pride, Keys, Air

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