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As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Flirting, Games, Excitement

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poet, Immortality, Truest
"Caxtoniana". Essay XXVII, 1863.

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
Mystery, Poet, Divine

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Despair, Sometimes, Desperation

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Race, Fellow Man

It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Children, Spring, Autumn

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Personality, Ignorant, May

Genius has no brother.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Brother, Genius

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Disappointment, Disappointed Love, Greater

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Art, Eye, Grace

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Knowledge, Desire, Fever

Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Prayer, Eye, Heart

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Selfishness, Want, Sensitive

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Art, Hands, Maids

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Vanity, Nerves, Opinion

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Angel, Past, Virtue

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Happiness, Laughter, Joy

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Thinking, Gentleman, Doe

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Country, Dog, Kindness

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Appreciation, Compliment, Ceremony

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Sunshine, Mind, Disposition

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Courage, Brave, Doubt
"King Arthur". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book XII, Chapter XXVIII, 1848-1849.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Punctuality, Virtue

When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Soul, Lips, Silent

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Strong, Heart, Apology

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