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EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, 1ST BARON LYTTON
English novelist and politician
(1803 - 1873)
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He that fancies himself very enlightened because he sees the deficiencies of others may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.
      - [Self-conceit]

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
      - [Repentance]

He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.
      - [Heirs]

He who would keep himself to himself should imitate the dumb animals, and drink water.
      - [Temperance]

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
      - [Retribution]

His classical reading is great: he can quote
  Horace, Juvenal, Ovid, and Martial by rote.
    He has read Metaphysics * * * Spinoza and Kant;
      And Theology too; I nave heard him descant
        Upon Basil and Jerome. Antiquities, art,
          He is fond of. He knows the old masters by heart,
            And his taste is refined.
      - [Reading]

Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.
      - [Hobbies]

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.
      - [Honesty]

Hope nothing from. luck; and the probability is that you will be so prepared, forewarned, and forearmed that all shallow observers will call you lucky.
      - [Luck]

How many have found solitude, not only, as Cicero calls it, the pabulum of the mind, but the nurse of their genius! How many of the world's most sacred oracles have been uttered, like those of Dodona, from the silence of deep woods!
      - [Solitude]

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism!
      - [Proverbs (General)]

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.
      - [Wedlock]

I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.
      - [Authorship]

I know not why we should delay our tokens of respect to those who deserve them, until the heart that our sympathy could have gladdened has ceased to beat. As men cannot read the epitaphs inscribed upon the marble that covers them, so the tombs that we erect to virtue often only prove our repentance that we neglected it when with us.
      - [Merit]

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
      - [Morning]

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
      - [Cheerfulness]

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
      - [Adversity]

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.
      - [Pride]

In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.
      - [Solitude]

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.
      - [Beggars]

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
      - [Gentleness]

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

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
      - [Beauty]

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.
      - [Self-reliance]

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.
      - [Passion]


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