Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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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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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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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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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
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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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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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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.
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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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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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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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Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
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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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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.