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All Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
- Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
- Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when…
- A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
- Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No…
- And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
- What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
- Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of…
- Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter
- Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than…
- Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in…
- The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
- The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to…
- A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation…
- Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a…
- Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect…
- Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that…
- Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.
- Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly…
- In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
- Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
- All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.
- It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid…
- To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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