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

12 Death quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Edward Bulwer‑Lytton’s twelve lines carry the weight of Victorian prose, offering a formal yet emotionally resonant look at mortality.

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Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

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To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

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Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

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Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock…

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Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our…

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Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

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Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's…

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As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at…

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To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We…

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We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the…

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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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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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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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