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The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Sex, Heart, Pride

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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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Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Soul, Principles, Should

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Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

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Honesty, Men, Gentleman

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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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The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.

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Judging, Intellectual, Excellence

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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

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Pain, New Beginnings, Pleasure

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What is human is immortal!

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Immortality, Immortal, Humans

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Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

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Prayer, Angel, Eye

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A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

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Fake Friends, Pressure, Pleasure

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Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

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Drama, Oratory, Delay

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The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

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Destiny, Men, Civilization

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The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

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Secret, Popularity, Seems

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He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

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Grief, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

"What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Chapter VI, 1858.

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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

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Nature, Character, Authorship

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There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

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Names, Good Man, World

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There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

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Book, Reading, Home

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Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine,
Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Life, Love Is, Laughing

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Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Cement, All Things

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He who has loved often ... has loved never.

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Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

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Enlargement, Invention, Deviation

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Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

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Children, Anchors, Small Child

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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

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Inspirational, Positive, Enthusiasm

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If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Purpose, Littles, Prime

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When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

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Anger, Sound, Calm

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