Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 13

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• Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Time, Lying, Eye

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• There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Age, Wells

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• Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

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  Love, Running, Heart

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• Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.

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  Love, Real, Heart

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• Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

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  Power, Calm, Aspect

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• My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Father, Adventure, Twenties

  "The Coming Race" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ch. 1, 1870.

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• The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

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  Stars, Atoms, Add

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• The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

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  Heart, Gallant, Certain

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• Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

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  Believe, Character, Past

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• In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

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  Truth, Honesty, Hype

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• There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

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  Greatness, Men, Dupes

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• Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

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  Wings, Promise, Age

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• Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

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  Heart, Home, Tree

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• A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

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  Art, Law, Imagination

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• Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

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  Men, Views, Debt

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• Rank is a great beautifier.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  "The Lady of Lyons" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Act ii, Scene i, 1838.

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• A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mind, Lasts, Pleasure

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• Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.

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  Team, Men, Wife

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• What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

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  Struggle, Ignorance, Fate

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• The curse of the great is ennui.

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  Curse, Ennui

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• He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

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  Children, Lying, Eye

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• It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Gratitude, Vanity, Mind

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

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  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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