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“To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!”

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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“To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.”

Ends Death Desire Animal Views Philosopher Petty Mourn Coffins Shrinking Adherence

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“A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.”

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“The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.”

Ifs Life Is Lines Cutting Equal Equality Circles Centre Circle Of Life

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“Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.”

Eye Beautiful Faces Speech Handsome Eloquence Beautiful Eyes

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“Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?”

Eye Stars Sweet Drink Melancholy Liquid

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“A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?”

Men Bigs Age Winning Chance Common Half Millions Amount Fame Common Sense Exception Dozen Posterity Lottery

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.”

Stills Wish Fame Training Constant Glorious Strife

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.”

Years Children School Fall Cities Summer Shoes Woods Shops Wild Child

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“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.”

Matter Issues Son Kings Fame Gentleman Nobility Straws Patents Bourbon

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“Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.”

Humans Next Names Given Known Mystery Divine Willing Poet Fame Remains Missions Immortal Reverence Orpheus

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton