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

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Letting Go, Pain, Disappointment

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Thinking, Sight, People

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Friendship, Men, Sincere

A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Goodbye, Dream, Farewell

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Inspirational, Ideas, Roots

The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Hope, Past, Night

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Thinking, Men, Tobacco Smoking
"Night and Morning". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, ch. vi, 1841.

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Youth, Surprise

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fate, Zeal, Frenzy

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Patience, Be Patient, Passive

Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Weed, Giving, Smoking

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Truth Is, Broads, Duty

When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Grief, Heart, Men

In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Law, Style, Literature

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Sympathy, Mind, May

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Achievement, Degrees, Strive

Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Kings, Son, Issues

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Spiritual, Numbers, Safety

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Giving, Silence

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Uprising, Our World, Long

Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Retirement, Flower, Ambition

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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Dog, Spring, Heart

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Time, Heart, Hair
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
And Love, Midnight, Youth
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Inspirational, Peace, Years

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