Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Heart Quotes

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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

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Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

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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 of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

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Love has no thought of self!
Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold
The loathsome prostitution of a hand
Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things
To bless the thing it loves!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

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If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

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To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

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