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Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to

Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

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

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Rushing, Weakness

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Funny, Humorous, Men

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Jealousy, Strong, Men

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Voice, Giving, Sneezing

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Art, Passion, Science

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Wise, Humble, Advice

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Moving, People, Wife

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Generations, Affection, Immortality

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Mountain, Moles, World

Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Running, Believe, Soul

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Beautiful, Dull, Genius

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Lonely, Mind, Punctuality

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Innocence, Poor, Substitutes

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Names, Soldier, Honor

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Beauty, Expression, Mystery

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Death, Stars, Ocean

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Higher, Pretension, Pretence

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Girl, Heart, Doors

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Beauty, Men, Should

Law dies, books never.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Book, Law, Dies

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Weapons, Praise, Victim

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Heart, Credit, Letters
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 250-52, What Will He Do With It? (1858), Book II. Title of Ch, XI., 1922.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Divorce, Two, Ships
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 504-05, A Lament, line 10, 1922.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Risk, Revolution, Made

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