Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes - Page 2

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• Nothing ages like laziness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Age, Laziness

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• Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Writing, Past, Landmarks

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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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• The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

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  Higher, Pretension, Pretence

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

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  Friendship, Faithful, Earth

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• When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

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  Helping Others, World, Pounds

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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.

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  Motivation, Men, Genius

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• A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

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  Men, Genius, Proportion

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Style, Swagger

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• As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, People, Saint

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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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• The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Magic, Tongue, Language

  "Eugene Aram". Book I, Chapter VII, 1832.

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ideas, Yesterday, Mind

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

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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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• The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Genius

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• Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Exercise

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• The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Strong, Destiny

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• He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Angel, Past, Virtue

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• Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Country, Men, Admire

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• The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Girl, Heart, Doors

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• I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

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  Enemy, Fool, Energetic

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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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• It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Knowledge, Desire, Fever

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