--To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft."


Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

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Arm thyself for the truth!
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own.
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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark ...
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; bu...
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No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to i...
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite....
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The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
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No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.
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There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and...
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Time is money.
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literatu...
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Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
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Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
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Never say "Fail" again.
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In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word As--f...
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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
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Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
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If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publi...
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Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
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Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between ...
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Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckonin...
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword.
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Fool me no fools.
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Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and ...
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I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
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It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet.
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When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me then thy tender eyes,...
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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
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You speak As one who fed on poetry.
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Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow, Say in the f...
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Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell? ...
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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate ...
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
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I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
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A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
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Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
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In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come; In you soars up the Adam from t...
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There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
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All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
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The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their gr...
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We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Bo...
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Hark, the world so loud, And they, the movers of the world, so still!
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Laws die, Books never.
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Ambition has no rest!
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Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be re...
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Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and v...
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He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation...
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, b...
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If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts i...
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The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part ...
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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be dr...
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Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
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Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own sh...
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"Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time...
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.
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When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it w...
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
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By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which m...
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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feel...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pe...
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
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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...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middl...
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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from me...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be re...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, an...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to wa...
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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh...
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac...
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The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h...
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the...
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
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The pen is mightier than the sword.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment
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I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
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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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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him ...
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middl...
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energ...
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac...
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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue
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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
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Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
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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...
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It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with ...
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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
He who has little silver in his pouch must have the more silk on his tongue
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the...
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy
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Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are ...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
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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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If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy a...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
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Fate laughs at probabilities
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Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
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The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to wan...
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In science, address the few, in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to th...
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The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money-chest
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Revolutions are not made with rosewater
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In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh...
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It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything
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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he may lose it
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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
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The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed Ere it...
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It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it...
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Nature's loving proxy, the watching mother
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Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of t...
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
Humor is the sunshine of the mind
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Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
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There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
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Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
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