More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton judging perfection character Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton character men father Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton december rose may There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton reading home book To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith! Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton beloved parent death A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton abuse reform revolution Writers are the main landmarks of the past. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton landmarks writing past A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton compassion heart character A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely! Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton farewell dream goodbye There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton vanity political skins Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton neighbor deeds love How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton unjust littles men Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton chance may giving 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 laughter joy happiness 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 authorship nature character Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton men ideas art We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton sadness sorrow heart 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 errors ambition heart In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton lexicon fate failure Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton bless sacrifice love
