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Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Patience, Be Patient, Passive

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Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

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Youth, Surprise

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The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate, Zeal, Frenzy

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Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

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Inspirational, Ideas, Roots

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The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

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Thinking, Men, Tobacco Smoking

"Night and Morning". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, ch. vi, 1841.

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The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.

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Hope, Past, Night

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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!

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Goodbye, Dream, Farewell

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The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

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Thinking, Sight, People

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There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

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Friendship, Men, Sincere

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In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

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Letting Go, Pain, Disappointment

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

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Natural Talent, Purpose, Want

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Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.

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Kings, Son, Issues

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Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.

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Weed, Giving, Smoking

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We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

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Inspirational, Peace, Years

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We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

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Achievement, Degrees, Strive

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

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Time, Heart, Hair

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

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Lying, Rain, Dark

"Paul Clifford". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1830.

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Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

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Eye, Heart, Punishment

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In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.

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Law, Style, Literature

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When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

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Grief, Heart, Men

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In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.

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Dog, Spring, Heart

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Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

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Retirement, Flower, Ambition

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Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

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Uprising, Our World, Long

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It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

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Sympathy, Mind, May

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One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

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Vices, Fifty, Worn

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