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

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

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton offers a Victorian‑era take on people in these 12 succinct statements, blending rhetorical flair with keen social observation.

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What is human is immortal!

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Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

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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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The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine…

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To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

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Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the…

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Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the…

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Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom,…

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Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the…

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Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can…

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The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for…

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Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts…

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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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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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