Edward Bulwer-Lytton quotes - page 4

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life. View quote
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Laws die, books never. View quote
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. View quote
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. View quote
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Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character. View quote
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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. View quote
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The pen is mightier than the sword. View quote
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. View quote
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. View quote
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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. View quote
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He who has loved often has loved never. View quote
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Books are waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. View quote
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Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. View quote
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Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor! View quote
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Repent!-that is the idlest word in our language. View quote
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Buy my flowers-O buy-I pray! The blind girl comes from afar; If the earth be as fair as her children say, These flowers her children are! View quote
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There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. View quote
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There is no anguish like an error of which we feel ashamed. View quote
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There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself! (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
To the man who aspires to know, no man who has been the meanest student of knowledge should be unknown. View quote
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Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never. While we speak, new worlds are sparkling forth-suns are throwing off their nebulae-nebulae are hardening into worlds. The Almighty proves His existence by creating. View quote
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He never errs who sacrifices self. View quote
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It is not study alone that produces a writer; it is Intensity. View quote
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