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About Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
(1803-1873) English Novelist and Poet

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In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As —fail !

Two lives that once part are like ships that divide. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

Take away the sword; States can be saved without it.

The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Rank is a great beautifier.

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune — with us it is a crime.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword.

What is past is past. There is a future left to all men who have the virtue to repent, and the energy to atone.

Ah, never can fall from the days that have been A gleam on the years that shall be!

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea!

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd’s crook Beside the scepter

It is difficult to say who does you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

Buy my flowers,—oh buy, I pray! The blind girl comes from afar.

Here Stanley meets, how Stanley scorns the glance! The brilliant chief, —irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash, —the Rupert of Debate

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,—'Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost.'

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash, — the Rupert of debate!

Alone!—that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

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.

Poverty is the wicked man's tempter, the good man's perdition, the proud man's curse, the melancholy man's halter.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of power.

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.

That one vast thought of God which we call the world.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

What men want is not talent; it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves, otherwise the knaves could not exist.

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.

Master books, but do not let them master you.- Read to live, not live to read.

A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way?

Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, But the happiest are usually the best.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother.

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.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied And less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

He who would keep himself to himself should imitate the dumb animals, and drink water.

It is astonishing how well men wear when they think of no one but themselves.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

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