Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 10

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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.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Pride, Keys, Air

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Secret, Popularity, Seems

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• What is human is immortal!

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  Immortality, Immortal, Humans

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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 a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

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  Children, Dark, Nursing

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• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

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  Men, Ancestry, Property

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• Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

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  Art, Men, Soul

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

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  Cement, All Things

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• Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

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  Revenge, Passion, Common

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• The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

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  Vices, World, Language

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• The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

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  Running, Long, People

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• Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

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  May, Fiction, Said

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• Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

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  Fall, Desire, Bed

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• Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

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  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

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  Clever, Mean, Men

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• Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

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  Pain, Vanity, Suffering

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• How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

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  Men, Unjust, Littles

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• The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

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  Weed, Heart, Men

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• The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

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  Men, Lucky, Needs

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• Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

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  Ambition, Eye, Air

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• The food of hope is meditative action.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Action

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• Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

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  Love, Suffering, Dear

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• There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

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  Vanity, Political, Skins

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• Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

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  Love, Death, Shepherds

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