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We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of

We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Hero, Humorous, Knights

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Two, Feelings, Forgiving

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Flower, Rose, Stem
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Philosophy, Ambition, Reason

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Feelings, Unseen, Done

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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Truth, Thinking, Firsts

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fear, Passion, Agonizing

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Health, Brain, Half

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Dream, Prophet, Just A Dream

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Wisdom, Passion, Bridges

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Aristocracy, Wealth, Democratic

What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Talent, Wealth

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Failure, Fate, Lexicon
Richelieu act 2, sc. 2 (1839)

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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Life, Play, Skills

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Money, Heart, Greed

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Way, Study

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nature, Differences, Common Sense

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Silence, Unbroken, May

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Mother, Women, Century

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Truth, Believe, Passion

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Country, Men, Admire

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Imagination, Noble, Originality

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Hands, Two Sides
"What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book II. Heading of Chapter XV, 1858.

Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Kindness, Light, Air

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Names, Luck, Fancy

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