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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Yesterday, Mind, Body
"Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.

He who has loved often ... has loved never.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Enlargement, Invention, Deviation

Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Life, Love Is, Laughing

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Sex, Heart, Pride

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Purpose, Littles, Prime

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fake Friends, Pressure, Pleasure

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

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

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Writing, Poetry, Temples

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Wise, Fighting, Blow

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

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

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nature, Character, Authorship

The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Long, Poetry, Pages

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Funny, Book, Science
"Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners". Book by Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1862.

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Money, Secret, Vices

You speak As one who fed on poetry.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poetry, Speak, Feds

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Names, Good Man, World

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Pride, Keys, Air

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Revenge, Passion, Common

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Grief, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking
"What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Chapter VI, 1858.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Inspirational, Positive, Enthusiasm

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Vanity, People, Vain

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Ancestry, Property

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Judging, Intellectual, Excellence

The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Destiny, Men, Civilization

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