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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.

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, 1st Baron Lytton
Money, Angel, Night

Nothing ages like laziness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Age, Laziness

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Disgrace
"Richelieu" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Act IV, scene 1, 1839.

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Science, Judgement, Literature
Caxtoniana 'Readers and Writers'

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Friendship, Real, Enemy
"What Will He Do With It?" Bk. III, Heading to Ch. XVII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 517), 1922.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Passion, Mind, Wrecks

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love, Falling In Love, Fall

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

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

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Cunning, Cleverness, Misers

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, People, Saint

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Ignorance, Men, Thinking

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Book, Paper, Waste

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Training, Wish, Fame

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Genius, Proportion

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Heart, Sadness, Sorrow

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Success, Two, Debt

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Kindness, Men, Perfect

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Philosopher, Advantage, Trifles

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Friendship, Faithful, Earth

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Evil, Literature, Doom

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fashion, Secret, Surprise

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Lying, Mind, Half

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love, Busy, Indolence

Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Names, Next, Mystery

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