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Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it name once lost you cannot get again.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter
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Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
My father died shortly after I was twenty-one and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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, 1st Baron Lytton
In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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, 1st Baron Lytton
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
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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, 1st Baron Lytton