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The curse of the great is ennui.

The curse of the great is ennui.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Curse, Ennui

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Inspirational, Enthusiasm For Life, Victory

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Liberty, Essentials, Dignity

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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Team, Men, Wife

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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Believe, Fall, Men

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Evil, Tools, Use
"Richelieu" (1839), Act III, scene 1, line 49 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 239-241), 1922.

A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fashion, Simplicity, Gentleman

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Death, Parent, Beloved

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Death, Cells, Graves

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Forgiveness, Forgiving, Needs
"Zanoni". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1842.

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Sports, Spring, Book
"The Last of the Barons". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Page 23), www.theguardian.com. 1877.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Father, Character, Men

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Humility, Pride, Men

To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Death, Animal, Views

Rank is a great beautifier.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
"The Lady of Lyons" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Act ii, Scene i, 1838.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Death, Mother, Children

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, 1st Baron Lytton
Gratitude, Vanity, Mind

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Sweet, Stars, Eye

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Character, Names, May

Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Summer, Sports, Spring

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Kindness, Thoughtful, Manners

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Art, Women, Book

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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Husband, Wife, Firsts

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Beautiful, Dark, Feelings

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Intelligence, Retail, Links

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