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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton. (1803–1873) (continued)

Bend on me then thy tender eyes,
As stars look on the sea.

When Stars are in the quiet Skies.

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Buy my flowers,—oh buy, I pray!
The blind girl comes from afar.

Buy my Flowers.

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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.

Kenelm Chillingly.

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The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

Night and Morning. Chap. vi.

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

Last of the Barons. Book v. Chap. i.

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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

The Disowned. Chap. xxxiii.

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The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.

The Disowned. Chap. xlii.

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The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

Eugene Aram. Book i. Chap. vii.

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Fate laughs at probabilities.

Eugene Aram. Book i. Chap. x.

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In science, read, by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture.

Edwin Ransford. (1805–1876)

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    In the days when we went gypsying
  A long time ago;
The lads and lassies in their best
  Were drest from top to toe.

In the Days when we went Gypsying.