In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton sight people thinking The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton leadership education inspirational The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton intelligence retail links To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton forget-you forget happiness Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton roots inspirational ideas All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton brave doubt courage 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 fighting wise blow In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton belief secret lying 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 temples poetry writing 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 political mean He who has loved often ... has loved never. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton mirth jars children Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton issues kings son Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton passion revenge common In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton funny science book Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton eye time lying Labour is the purgatory of the erring. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton purgatory erring labor You speak Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton feds poetry speak Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy! Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton youth and-love midnight It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton real friendship enemy
