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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The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Cunning, Cleverness, Misers

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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.

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Kindness, Men, Perfect

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To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

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Inspirational, Success, Goal

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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

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Imagination, Noble, Originality

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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.

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Character, Heart, Men

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The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Wisdom, Strong, Destiny

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Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

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Foundation, Breeding, Good Nature

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

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Past, Men, Energy

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In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

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Health, Brain, Half

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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

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Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

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It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

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Courage, Mean, Errors

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That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

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Men, Views, Perfect

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Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

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Men, Heaven, Crime

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The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

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Passion, Mind, Wrecks

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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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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

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Nature, Differences, Common Sense

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Success never needs an excuse.

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Needs, Excuse

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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Names, Luck, Fancy

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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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Excellence, Wish, Desire

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Motivation, Men, Genius

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Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Stars, Careers, Valor

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Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

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Men, Style, Swagger

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Ambition has no rest.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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