Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
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Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.