Top 28 Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
#1. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
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#2. social infancy, regarded the legends of their faith as a child reads a fairy tale, credulous of all that is supernatural in the agency--unconscious of all that may be philosophical in the moral. It is true, indeed, that dim
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#3. my Clodius, how little your countrymen know of the true versatility of a Pericles, of the true witcheries of an Aspasia!
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#4. 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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#5. Injustice, they say, can only emanate from three causes: want of wisdom to perceive what is just, want of benevolence to desire, want of power to fulfill it; and that each of these three wants is incompatible in the All-Wise, the All-Good, the All-Powerful.
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#7. We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.
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#8. What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.
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#12. Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism of genius - he wants its bones and flesh.
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#14. It shames man not to feel man's human fear,
It shames man only if the fear subdue
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#15. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
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#16. By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.
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#18. My theory is that the Supernatural is the Impossible, and what is called the supernatural is only something in the laws of nature of which we have been hitherto ignorant.
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#19. We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
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#21. There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
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#22. Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
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#23. He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
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#24. As a scientist Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it
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#27. 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.
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#28. No path between the stranger's home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours.
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