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Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Kindness, Light, Air

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As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Truth, Believe, Passion

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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

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Men, Hands, Two Sides

"What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book II. Heading of Chapter XV, 1858.

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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

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Names, Luck, Fancy

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The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

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Men, Brave, Good Man

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It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Courage, Mean, Errors

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A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

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Mistake, Heart, Two

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It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

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Mean, Errors, Practice

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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

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Joy, World, Virtue

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Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

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Philosophy, Real, Believe

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Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

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Air, Castles, Cost

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The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

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Wisdom, Strong, Destiny

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Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

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Foundation, Breeding, Good Nature

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Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

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Prayer, Tears, Pharisees

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

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Men, Want, Taste

"Last of the Barons" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book V, Chapter I, 1843.

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To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

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Ideas, Heaven, Links

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Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

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Power, Weapons, Calm

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If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

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Men, Wealth, Prosperity

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Success never needs an excuse.

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Needs, Excuse

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A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

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Heart, Sunshine, Destiny

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There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

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Art, Passion, Science

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I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Enemy, Fool, Energetic

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Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

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Sweet, Eye, Sleep

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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Men, Numbers, Enemy

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 221-22, "What Will He Do With It?" (1858), Book IX, Chapter III. Introduction, 1922.

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Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

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Hate, Love Is, Pardon

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