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Us Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
- 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…
- There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds…
- We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be…
- How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life,…
- A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We…
- People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such…
- 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…
- Grief alone can teach us what is man.
- Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.
- 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…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
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