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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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Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Feelings, Unseen, Done

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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.

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Truth, Thinking, Firsts

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Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

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Philosophy, Ambition, Reason

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Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

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Kindness, Light, Air

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What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.

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Men, Talent, Wealth

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Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

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Men, Way, Study

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In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

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Failure, Fate, Lexicon

Richelieu act 2, sc. 2 (1839)

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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.

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Money, Heart, Greed

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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.

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Names, Luck, Fancy

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As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

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Truth, Believe, Passion

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Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

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Success, Two, Debt

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You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

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Silence, Unbroken, May

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The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

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Men, Brave, Good Man

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Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.

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Character, Judging, Perfection

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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

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Men, Hands, Two Sides

"What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book II. Heading of Chapter XV, 1858.

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Success never needs an excuse.

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Needs, Excuse

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Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

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Prayer, Tears, Pharisees

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

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Men, Want, Taste

"Last of the Barons" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book V, Chapter I, 1843.

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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 an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

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Mean, Errors, Practice

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A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

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Mistake, Heart, Two

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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

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Joy, World, Virtue

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Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

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Philosophy, Real, Believe

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To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

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Ideas, Heaven, Links

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