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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
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.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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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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Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
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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.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
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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.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
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.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton