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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Achievement category:
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Activity category:
The food of hope is meditative action. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Advice category:
When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Aging category:
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Aging category:
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Ambition category:
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Appreciation category:
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Art category:
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Beauty category:
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Beginning category:
It was a dark and stormy night... (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Beginning category:
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Books category:
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Books category:
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Books category:
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Business category:
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Character category:
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Colour category:
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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Communication category:
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Confidence category:
Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Consideration category:
A prudent consideration for Number One. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Contentment category:
A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Courage category:
Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Criticism category:
People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise? (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Deception category:
The easiest person to deceive is one's self. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Desire category:
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Desperation category:
Despair makes victims sometimes victors. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Destiny category:
'It is destiny' phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Destiny category:
Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Disappointment category:
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Disappointment category:
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Dreams category:
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Earth category:
We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Eccentricity category:
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Education category:
Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Ego category:
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Emotion category:
The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Enthusiasm category:
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Excellence category:
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Exhaustion category:
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Expression category:
Expression is the mystery of beauty. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Failure category:
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In the lexicon of youth, which / Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word / As - fail. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Faith category:
Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Fame category:
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame, to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Fame category:
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Fashion category:
The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Finishing category:
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Flexibility category:
The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Freedom category:
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Friendship category:
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. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Future category:
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Gender category:
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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Generosity category:
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Genius category:
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Genius category:
Genius has no brother. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Goodness category:
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chills the ardor to excel. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Greatness category:
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Habit category:
The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Happiness category:
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)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Health category:
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. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Health category:
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In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Hope category:
The night is past - joy cometh with the morrow. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Humanity category:
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Humility category:
O be very sure / That no man will learn anything at all, / Unless he first will learn humility. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Humour category:
Humor is the sunshine of the mind. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Ideas category:
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. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Ideas category:
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Illusion category:
Bright and illustrious illusions! (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Imagination category:
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Imitation category:
Imitation, if noble and general, ensures the best hope of originality. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Immortality category:
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Immortality category:
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Indolence category:
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Innocence category:
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Intellect category:
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Journey category:
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)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Joy category:
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Joy category:
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Knowledge category:
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea? (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Life category:
In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Light category:
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Loneliness category:
All that poets sing, and grief hath known, of hopes laid waste, knells in that word 'alone.' (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Love category:
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)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Love category:
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Methodology category:
Art and science have their meeting point in method. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Mistakes category:
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Money category:
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Money category:
Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Morality category:
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Movement category:
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Music category:
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Mysteries category:
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Nature category:
Art does not imitate nature, but it founds itself on the study of nature - takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz. the mind and the soul of man. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Observation category:
Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Opportunity category:
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Passion category:
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Patience category:
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Peace category:
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Philosophy category:
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Pleasure category:
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Poetry category:
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Power category:
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Practice category:
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Prayer category:
Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Preparation category:
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Prosperity category:
It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Prosperity category:
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Purpose category:
Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Questions category:
Alas! must it ever be so? / Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, / And fight our own shadows forever? (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Religion category:
Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Sacrifice category:
Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Sadness category:
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Sadness category:
Grief alone can teach us what is man. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Senses category:
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Solitude category:
How many have found solitude, not only, as Cicero calls it, the pabulum of the mind, but the nurse of their genius! How many of the world's most sacred oracles have been uttered, like those of Dodona, from the silence of deep woods! (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Solitude category:
In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Success category:
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Suffering category:
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Suffering category:
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Survival category:
A couplet of verse, a period of prose, may cling to the rock of ages as a shell that survives a deluge. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Talent category:
What mankind wants is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Teaching category:
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)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Temperament category:
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Thought category:
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Thought category:
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Time category:
Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Timeliness category:
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Truth category:
Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aesthetic beauty, concur and maintain that the real truthfulness of all works of imagination - sculpture, painting, and written fiction - is so purely in the imagination that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Truth category:
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Truth category:
When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Truth category:
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)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Tyranny category:
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Vanity category:
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Vanity category:
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Winning category:
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Wisdom category:
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Words category:
Bu' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Work category:
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Writing category:
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - From the Writing category:
Writers are the main landmarks of the past. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
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