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Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.”

301. “In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.”

302. “When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Nothing ages like laziness.”

303. “Nothing ages like laziness.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “I will believe him to have been a very respectable man, who only spoke the truth when he boasted of his power to be in two places at the same time.” “Is that so difficult?” said the old gentleman; “if so, you have never dreamed!”

304. “I will believe him to have been a very respectable man, who only spoke the truth when he boasted of his power to be in two places at the same time.” “Is that so difficult?” said the old gentleman; “if so, you have never dreamed!”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations – fear.”

305. “In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations – fear.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.”

306. “Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “The art of medicine will then be honoured in the place of war, which is the art of murder: the noblest study of the acutest minds will be devoted to the discovery and arrest of the causes of disease. Life, I grant, cannot be made eternal; but it may be prolonged almost indefinitely. And as the meaner animal bequeaths its vigour to its offspring, so man shall transmit his improved organisation, mental and physical, to his sons.”

307. “The art of medicine will then be honoured in the place of war, which is the art of murder: the noblest study of the acutest minds will be devoted to the discovery and arrest of the causes of disease. Life, I grant, cannot be made eternal; but it may be prolonged almost indefinitely. And as the meaner animal bequeaths its vigour to its offspring, so man shall transmit his improved organisation, mental and physical, to his sons.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.”

308. “Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “We must remember how apt man is to extremes – rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.”

309. “We must remember how apt man is to extremes – rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “The food of hope is meditative action.”

310. “The food of hope is meditative action.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “In the hour of strait and need, we measure men’s stature not by the body, but the soul!”

311. “In the hour of strait and need, we measure men’s stature not by the body, but the soul!”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Ah, what without a heaven would be even love! – a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.”

312. “Ah, what without a heaven would be even love! – a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.”

313. “The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.”

314. “It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.”

315. “O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “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 are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.”

316. “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 are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.”

317. “Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.”

318. “There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Ah!” he exclaimed, “how right you were to tell me to marry respectably; to have a solid position; to live in decorous fear of the world and one’s wife; and to command the envy of the poor, the good opinion of the rich. You have practised what you preach.”

319. “Ah!” he exclaimed, “how right you were to tell me to marry respectably; to have a solid position; to live in decorous fear of the world and one’s wife; and to command the envy of the poor, the good opinion of the rich. You have practised what you preach.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A – –. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.”

320. “In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A – –. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.”

321. “It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.”

322. “The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.”

323. “Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.”

324. “It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

325. “The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.”

326. “Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”

327. “We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.”

328. “Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Tears are akin to prayer – Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.”

329. “Tears are akin to prayer – Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.”

330. “He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “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, by some dazzling aphorism.”

331. “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, by some dazzling aphorism.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.”

332. “Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.”

333. “Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.”

334. “Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.”

335. “More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.”

336. “The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.”

337. “Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “In beginning the world, if you don’t wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.”

338. “In beginning the world, if you don’t wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “A prudent consideration for Number One.”

339. “A prudent consideration for Number One.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “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.”

340. “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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.”

341. “The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.”

342. “Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer, – his manners, his mien, his exterior, – that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him – rarely in his mind.”

343. “I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer, – his manners, his mien, his exterior, – that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him – rarely in his mind.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.”

344. “Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.”

345. “He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.”

346. “The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.”

347. “Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.”

348. “We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? – and the instinct that urges the question is God’s answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.”

349. “Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? – and the instinct that urges the question is God’s answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life – serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.”

350. “Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life – serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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