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Lord Edward Lytton

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EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern lite...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell? ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING The oldest (graves) are in the front, the newest in the back.
JANE WEIR He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite....
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Those were the good old days when educated Americans read foreign literature in translation, even wo...
MINAE MIZUMURA In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just lik...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like...
WILLIAM FAULKNER We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. MILNE Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read...
KEVIN J. ANDERSON No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream l...
WALTER JON WILLIAMS The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune...
MARGO LANAGAN I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., scienc...
JESMYN WARD Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
KENNETH ANGER To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
WILLIAM BLAKE I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops....
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST As an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.
WILL KEMP All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
JOHN GREEN What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. MILNE And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur...
JAMES JONES Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo...
BETTY SMITH Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw...
J.D. SALINGER Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ...
IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
LAUREN KATE Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...
JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?
PAULA STOKES There's no sustenance in the past.
VIOLETTE LEDUC Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r...
THICH NHAT HANH To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?”
“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ...
JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.”
“Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?”
“Yeah,”...
JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest.
“Hazel Grace. No. I will gran...
JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma...
JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist.
“Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�...
JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
“So you...
JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.”
“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ...
JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.”
Me: “I’m okay.”
Augustus: “Okay.” (...
JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu...
J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima
JOHN GREEN But it's your life.
JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round.
JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ...
JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace.
JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and...
JOHN GREEN

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EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
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EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
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EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
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EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
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EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
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EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
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EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
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 surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him ...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middl...
EDWARD G. 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 G. BULWER-LYTTON How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with ...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON 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 Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON 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
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON 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.
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 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.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Fate laughs at probabilities
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to wan...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In science, address the few, in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to th...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money-chest
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Revolutions are not made with rosewater
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he may lose it
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Oh, better, no doubt, is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs, And swe...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few, but...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed Ere it...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Nature's loving proxy, the watching mother
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of t...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON 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
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON