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Fine natures are like fine poems a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.
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The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.
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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
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What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?
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Fate laughs at probabilities.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
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We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
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When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
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In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.
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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
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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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The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
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When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
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