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That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:
Whole in himself.


Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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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 We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge
EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON 'It is destiny' phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The st...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose y...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many ...
EDWARD G. 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 G. BULWER-LYTTON It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Life that ever needs forgiveness has for its first duty to forgive
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
EDWARD G. 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 G. BULWER-LYTTON It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with t...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the s...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so p...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The world's a nettle. Disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.
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 What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? The easiest person to d...
EDWARD G. BULWER LYTTON When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturni...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Art and science have their meeting point in method.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER 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