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Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.”

Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

British novelist known for his historical novels and Gothic tales, famous for works such as 'Peveril of the Peak' and 'Evelyn Hope'. more

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“If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.”

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“Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?”

Knows Men Doe Book Ideas Whole Sound Brain Knowledge Knowing Every Man Scholar Knowing Better

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“In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.”

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“Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.”

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“Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.”

Mind Kind Art Eye Moral Judging Morality Ethics Witness Contemplation Reports Works Of Art Sentiments Ethical Grandeur Beholder Very True

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.”

Humans Given Mystery Divine Willing Poet Remains Missions Reverence

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.”

Passion Energy Mistake Youth Stronger Excited Violent Intense Strongest Durability

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“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.”

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

Firsts Art Practice Essentials

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“Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.”

Prayer Tears Parades Imposter Pharisees

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