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

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

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First encounters with a new idea often leave a lingering echo. Here you’ll find eleven of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s reflections on those pivotal moments, offering a glimpse into how he framed beginnings and the courage they demand.

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Business first, then pleasure.

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

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

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

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Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the…

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Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits…

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Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a…

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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that…

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Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you…

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A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and…

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Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical…

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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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