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"33 Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 25 May 1803. Died: 18 January 1873 | Writer | Politician |

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Talent Can Genius Does
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Best Teacher Suggests Dogmatizes
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Life Beautiful Art Moves
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Art Science Meeting point Method
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Friend Times Life Few
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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Chance Happens Account Gift
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Happiness Virtue Happiest Best
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If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Industrious Picture Wealth Generous
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Truth Ocean Nature Track
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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

You Loved Show Fault
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Love One Great Woe
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Beneath Rule Great Pen
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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.

Luck Fancy Name Ready
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The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
Easiest Person Deceive
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Fresh mind Body Drain Yesterday
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Gray Hair Knows Age
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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Person World Better Pound
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Wandering Happiness Narrow Compass
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Fool Flatters Himself Wise
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Enthusiasm Genius Sincerity Truth
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Every man Vigilantly Resolves Genius
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Good heart Heads World
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Power Characteristically Calmness Strength
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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
What Mankind Talent Purpose
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Triumphs Crowds Hearts Sole
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Past Future Men Virtue
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Agonizing Fine skin Vanity Application
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Surest Evidence Friendship Display
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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Anger Ventilated Forgiveness Concealed
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Nothing certain Life Lose
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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Reform Correction Abuses Revolution
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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Jewel Prize Joy Striving
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O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility

Sure Learn Man Humility
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes & Sayings