Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 15

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• We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beautiful, Dark, Feelings

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• There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Patience, Names, Doe

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• Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Erring, Purgatory, Labor

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• Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Giving, May, Chance

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• It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Moving, Games, Finishing

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• Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Husband, Wife, Firsts

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• There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kindness, Thoughtful, Manners

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• Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Character, Men

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• When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Pawns

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• Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Air, Castles, Cost

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• Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Giving, Tree, Shelter

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• What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Purpose, Want

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• Laws die, books never.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Law

  "Richelieu" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Act I, scene 2, 1839.

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• Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Time, Wells, My Friends

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• More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Eye, Library

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• There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Jars, Mirth

  "Kenelm Chillingly; His Adventures and Opinions". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1873.

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• Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beauty, Art, Curves

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• Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Education, Father, Men

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• The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Eye, Violet, Vibrations

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• It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Errors, Evil, Healthy

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• Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Two, Waiting

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• Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hope, Grief, Waste

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• In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Lying, Secret, Belief

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• A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Winning, Men, Common Sense

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• We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Reading, Book, Fool

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