Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 4

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• The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fashion, Secret, Surprise

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• Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Names, Next, Mystery

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• A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Lying, Mind, Half

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• Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Judging, Perfection

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• Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Dream, Prophet, Just A Dream

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• Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Two, Feelings, Forgiving

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• In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fear, Passion, Agonizing

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• There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Aristocracy, Wealth, Democratic

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• Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Passion, Bridges

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• We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hero, Humorous, Knights

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• Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Success, Two, Debt

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• Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Flower, Rose, Stem

  Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

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• Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Feelings, Unseen, Done

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• How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Truth, Thinking, Firsts

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• Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Philosophy, Ambition, Reason

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• In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Play, Skills

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• Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Virtue

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• What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Talent, Wealth

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• Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Nature, Differences, Common Sense

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• In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Failure, Fate, Lexicon

  Richelieu act 2, sc. 2 (1839)

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• Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Heart, Greed

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• Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Way, Study

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• Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Imagination, Noble, Originality

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• You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Silence, Unbroken, May

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• Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Country, Men, Admire

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