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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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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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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Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Disgrace

"Richelieu" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Act IV, scene 1, 1839.

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Nothing ages like laziness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Age, Laziness

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

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Courage, Destiny, Men

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The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

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Creating, Almighty, Existence

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Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

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Immoral

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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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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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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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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.

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Success, Men, Purpose

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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

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Book, Reading, Exercise

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

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Children, Childhood, Genius

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The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

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Passion, Mind, Wrecks

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Self Improvement, Care, Merit

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

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Men, Style, Swagger

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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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Work, Men, Solitude

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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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Men, Views, Perfect

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