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Nothing so good as a universit...

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Emotion, whether of ridicule, ...

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Emulation, even in brutes, is ...

Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively 'nervous.' See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, 'It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward.' Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Women love energy and grand re...

Women love energy and grand results.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

The curse of the great is ennu...

The curse of the great is ennui.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Evening is the delight of virt...

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 510 quotes

Bright and illustrious illusio...

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

The desire of excellence is th...

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

We must remember how apt man i...

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

In how large a proportion of c...

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

There is no tongue that flatte...

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

When the world frowns, we can ...

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

More bounteous run rivers when...

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

The veil which covers the face...

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Genius, the Pythian of the bea...

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

That man will never be a perfe...

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

In families well ordered, ther...

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 510 quotes

Our glories float between the ...

Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun,
And are the playthings of the casual wind.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Nothing can constitute good-br...

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

It is a very high mind to whic...

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 510 quotes

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