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The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Better that the light cloud should fade away into heaven with the morning breath, than travail through the weary day to gather in darkness, and in storm (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
There is scarcely as good critic of books born in our age, and yet every fool thinks himself justified in criticising persons (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
We must remember how apt man is to extremes - rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: No room for your ladyship; pass on (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Only when the sap is dried up, only when age comes on, does the sun shine in vain for man and for the tree (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Happiness and virtue react upon each other, the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Hope nothing from. Luck; and the probability is that you will be so prepared, forewarned, and forearmed that all shallow observers will call you lucky (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom opinion than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
The Wise (Minstrel or Sage, ) out of their books are clay; but in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels - that, side by side, upon our way, walk with and warn us! (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Ever since there has been so great a demand for type, there has been much less lead to spare for cannonballs (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits the lowlier their boughs (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning - place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
In all cases of heartache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
As it has been finely expressed, principle is a passion for truth. And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, the truths we believe in are the pillars of our world (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to achieve, but the will to labor (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented persuasion as crowned (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)