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A candle held in the skeletal hand of poverty reveals a man's dark heart. Bulwer‑Lytton notes that love can turn the proud into meek and the cheerful into sad. He also suggests that a single hobby should be like a faithful wife, not a fickle mistress.

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Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

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Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

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Grief alone can teach us what is man.

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A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

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A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

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

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Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

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Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

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Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

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Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not…

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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels…

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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

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Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

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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…

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The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which…

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A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks…

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That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must…

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The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to…

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The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial…

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I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full…

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In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon…

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Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish…

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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…

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There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in…

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To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited,…

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It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In…

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Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the…

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Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say,…

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Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the…

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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…

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object…

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The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

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

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Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

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Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

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Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

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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.

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In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

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Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to…

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Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

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It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser…

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

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In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner…

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Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

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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…

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He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

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I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

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Nothing ages like laziness.

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Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the…

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What's money without happiness?

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The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the…

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He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage…

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The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

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