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To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.
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When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.
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What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?
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The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.
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Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.
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More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.
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The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
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In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!
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Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
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He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.
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Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.
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Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.
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Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model...
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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 defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
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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 mission.
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Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.
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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 the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
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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 praise?
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The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.
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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 it.
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Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
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The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Born:
May 25, 1803
Died:
January 18, 1873
(aged 69)
Bio:
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician.
Known for:
The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)
Paul Clifford (1830)
Zanoni (1842)
Eugene Aram (1832)
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