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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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• In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Heart, Solitude

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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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Real, Artist, Imagination

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• Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sports, Spring, Book

  "The Last of the Barons". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Page 23), www.theguardian.com. 1877.

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• They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

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  Rocks, Age, Shells

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• I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Morning, Children, Men

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• I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Evil, Tools, Use

  "Richelieu" (1839), Act III, scene 1, line 49 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 239-241), 1922.

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• Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Echoes, Losing, Virtue

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• A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Trust, Men, Rely Upon

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• Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Needs

  "Zanoni". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1842.

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• Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

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  Running, Horse, Ambition

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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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• It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beautiful, Race, Democracy

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• Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Summer, Sports, Spring

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• Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Crush, Eye, Men

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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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• Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

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  Running, Country, Children

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• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Eye, Imagination

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• Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

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  Art, Eye, Judging

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• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Passion, Stronger

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• Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kindness, Lying, Believe

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• Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Sacrifice, Bless

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• Grief alone can teach us what is man.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Sadness, Men

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• I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Believe, Fall, Men

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• Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Firsts, Rate

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