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Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Long, Long Day

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poverty, Strange, Strange Bedfellows

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

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

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Soul, Needs

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Looks, Debt, Youth

What's money without happiness?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Money

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Tongue, Ants, Prey

The classic literature is always modern.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Literature, Classic, Modern
"Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1862.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Proportion, Valuable
"Caxtoniana". Essay XIV, 1863.

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Feelings, Tongue, Lovers

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Country, Poverty, Crime
England and the English (1833)

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Heaven, One Day, Would Be

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Bows, Reproach

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poverty, Ignoble, Relative

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Art, Practice, Essentials

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Drama, Oratory, Delay

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Ornaments, Jewelry, Evidence

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Happiness, Forget You, Forget

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Soul, Principles, Should

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Children, Anchors, Small Child

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Honesty, Men, Gentleman

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Anger, Sound, Calm

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Music, Piano, Soul

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Passion, Mean, Political

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Passion, Ambition, Two

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