Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Purpose, Genius, Fine

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Women love energy and grand results.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Energy, Results

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Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Lying, Men, Perfection

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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.

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Men, People, Principles

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It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

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Friendship, Character, Men

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A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

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Men, He Man, Merciful

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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

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Writing, Past, Landmarks

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Master books, but do not let them master you.

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Patience, Book, Overcoming Addiction

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He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

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Retirement, Retribution, Gifted

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Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

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Character, Army, Men

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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

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Abuse, Reform, Revolution

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 672-73, speech in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill, 1922.

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People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

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People, Criticism, Faces

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Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

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Children, Childhood, Genius

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The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

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Excellence, Wish, Desire

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

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Friendship, Communication, Men

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Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

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Work, Men, Solitude

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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

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Ideas, Yesterday, Mind

"Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.

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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 in life besides that of letter writing.

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Writing, Advice, Doubt

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Ambition has no rest.

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Ambition

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 20-21, Richelieu (1839), Act III, scene 1, 1922.

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The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

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Money, Angel, Night

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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.

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Philosophical, Men, Organization

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Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

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Courage, Destiny, Men

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Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

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Confidence, Self, Realization

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Friendship, Real, Enemy

"What Will He Do With It?" Bk. III, Heading to Ch. XVII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 517), 1922.

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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

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Inspirational, May, Enthusiasm

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Born: May 25, 1803
Died: January 18, 1873
Occupation: Novelist
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