Book Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

11 Book quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Edward Bulwer‑Lytton’s reputation for vivid language shines through in these eleven brief reflections on books, offering a compact taste of his dramatic flair applied to reading.

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Law dies, books never.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

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Master books, but do not let them master you.

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

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More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over…

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O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book…

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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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Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a…

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In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is,…

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There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel,…

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Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony 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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Law dies, books never.

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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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