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Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Appearance, Jackets

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Mistake, Heart, Two

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Brave, Good Man

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Courage, Mean, Errors

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Joy, World, Virtue

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Mean, Errors, Practice

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Happiness, Inner Peace, Virtue

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

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

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Air, Castles, Cost

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Power, Weapons, Calm

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

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

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Wisdom, Strong, Destiny

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Foundation, Breeding, Good Nature

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Ideas, Heaven, Links

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Want, Taste
"Last of the Barons" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book V, Chapter I, 1843.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Prayer, Tears, Pharisees

Success never needs an excuse.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Needs, Excuse

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Numbers, Enemy
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 221-22, "What Will He Do With It?" (1858), Book IX, Chapter III. Introduction, 1922.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Enemy, Fool, Energetic

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Heart, Sunshine, Destiny

Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

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

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Hate, Love Is, Pardon

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Book, Knowledge, Men

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Heart, Ambition, Errors

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

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

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