In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of … - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton - Quotesmemo.com

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Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have anthropologists who dig up the art from the past. You can see the refinement in the society by the art. And people will see our lack of refinement when they dig up our art.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

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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.

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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!

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Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have anthropologists who dig up the art from the past. You can see the refinement in the society by the art. And people will see our lack of refinement when they dig up our art.

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