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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
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and...
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EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
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EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
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And fight our own sh...
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The pen is mightier than the sword.
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EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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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.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to wa...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
EDWARD GEORGE 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 Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge
EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Arm thyself for the truth!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; bu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to i...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON 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