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The curse of the great is ennu...

The curse of the great is ennui.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Women love energy and grand re...

Women love energy and grand results.

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

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

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

It is, the most beautiful trut...

It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Never, be argued out of your s...

Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Debt is to man what the serpen...

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 510 quotes

Dandies, when first-rate, are ...

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Ask any school-boy up to the a...

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, 'In the streets of London,' if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

A man's own conscience is his ...

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 510 quotes

The most delicate beauty in th...

The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Man hazards the condition and ...

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Life, that ever needs forgiven...

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Rank is a great beautifier....

Rank is a great beautifier.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

The Management of money is, in...

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

The man who smokes, thinks lik...

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Trees that, like the poplar, l...

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

What is human is immortal!...

What is human is immortal!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

Castles in the air cost a vast...

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 510 quotes

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