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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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A candle held in a skeletal hand of Poverty lets a person see the darkness inside their own heart. Refinement brings new pleasures but also new pains. Reason is praised as a guide that steadies daily life over fleeting feelings.

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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, GCMG, PC was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866.

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Notable works: The Last Days of Pompeii

About Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, GCMG, PC was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, as which he selected Richard Clement Moody to found British Columbia. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866.

Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

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Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

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Law dies, books never.

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Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

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Grief alone can teach us what is man.

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Bright and illustrious illusions!

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You speak As one who fed on poetry.

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Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

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

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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

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Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

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Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

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

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Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

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When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

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

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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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Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the…

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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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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

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Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

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

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At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

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Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul…

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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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Education

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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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The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty,…

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Crime

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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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Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most…

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Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by…

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Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of…

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Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty…

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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…

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Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities…

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The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from…

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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…

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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…

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It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn…

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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…

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