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There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Book, Reading, Home

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The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

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Sex, Heart, Pride

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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Yesterday, Mind, Body

"Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.

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To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Happiness, Forget You, Forget

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No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Bows, Reproach

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The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

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Wise, Fighting, Blow

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The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

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Passion, Ambition, Two

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Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

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Prayer, Angel, Eye

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Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

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Fate, Providence, Servant

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Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

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Poverty, Ignoble, Relative

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He who has loved often ... has loved never.

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Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

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Honesty, Men, Gentleman

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If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

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Purpose, Littles, Prime

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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

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Inspirational, Positive, Enthusiasm

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Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

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Drama, Oratory, Delay

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The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

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Art, Practice, Essentials

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The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

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Long, Poetry, Pages

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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

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Funny, Book, Science

"Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners". Book by Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1862.

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Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

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Children, Anchors, Small Child

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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

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Nature, Character, Authorship

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The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

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Destiny, Men, Civilization

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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

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Pain, New Beginnings, Pleasure

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He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

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Grief, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

"What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Chapter VI, 1858.

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Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

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Music, Piano, Soul

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The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.

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Judging, Intellectual, Excellence

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