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

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

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If you’ve ever felt the pull of a burning desire, these eleven nuggets from Edward Bulwer‑Lytton capture that intensity. Though brief, the selection offers a clear sense of his perspective on what fuels us, making it a handy stop for anyone looking for a quick spark of inspiration.

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Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

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In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

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In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

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The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

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As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The…

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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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Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which…

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It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed…

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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them…

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood.…

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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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