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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.”

351. “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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.”

352. “Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.”

— 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.”

353. “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: “Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.”

354. “Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.”

355. “In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.”

356. “Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.”

357. “It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “A man’s own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom “opinion” than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.”

358. “A man’s own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom “opinion” than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.”

— 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.”

359. “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: “Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.”

360. “Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.”

361. “By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!”

362. “Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.”

363. “Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

364. “In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man’s disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.”

365. “Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.”

366. “What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “I, artist in words, dedicate, then, to you, artist whose ideas speak in marble, this well-loved work of my matured manhood. I love it not the less because it has been little understood and superficially judged by the common herd: it was not meant for them. I love it not the more because it has found enthusiastic favorers amongst the Few. My affection for my work is rooted in the solemn and pure delight which it gave me to conceive and to perform.”

367. “I, artist in words, dedicate, then, to you, artist whose ideas speak in marble, this well-loved work of my matured manhood. I love it not the less because it has been little understood and superficially judged by the common herd: it was not meant for them. I love it not the more because it has found enthusiastic favorers amongst the Few. My affection for my work is rooted in the solemn and pure delight which it gave me to conceive and to perform.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.”

368. “The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.”

369. “He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quote: “Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.”

370. “Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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