Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.

  

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• When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.

  

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• In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.

  

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• The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

  

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• Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Shame
  • Imperfect
  • Breaks