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 man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Success, Men, Purpose

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Courage, Destiny, Men

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The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fashion, Secret, Surprise

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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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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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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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He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

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Philosopher, Advantage, Trifles

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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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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

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Book, Reading, Exercise

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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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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.

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Science, Judgement, Literature

Caxtoniana 'Readers and Writers'

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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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Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Flower, Rose, Stem

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

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Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

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Heart, Greatness, Men

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

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Book, Paper, Waste

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Master books, but do not let them master you.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Patience, Book, Overcoming Addiction

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Revenge, Anger, Concealed

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The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Passion, Mind, Wrecks

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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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Inspirational, Success, Goal

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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Truth, Thinking, Firsts

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Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Training, Wish, Fame

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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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Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Money, Heart, Greed

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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