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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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
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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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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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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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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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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
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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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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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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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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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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
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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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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.