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

13 Littles quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Edward Bulwer‑Lytton’s prose often lingered on the subtle. These thirteen brief lines reveal his taste for the delicate, offering a quick taste of his 19‑century flair.

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If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little…

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There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from…

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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels…

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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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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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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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Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to…

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When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied…

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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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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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Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions…

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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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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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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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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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