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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There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

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Inspirational, Philosophy, Fate

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Friendship, Communication, Men

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The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

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Passion, Mind, Wrecks

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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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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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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

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Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

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

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Motivation, Men, Genius

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The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

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Cunning, Cleverness, Misers

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

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Stars, Careers, Valor

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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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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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Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

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Men, Heaven, Crime

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

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Wisdom, Passion, Bridges

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I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

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Love, Falling In Love, Fall

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Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

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Self Improvement, Care, Merit

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

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Men, Style, Swagger

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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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There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

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Aristocracy, Wealth, Democratic

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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

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Love, Busy, Indolence

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And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Friendship, Faithful, Earth

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