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Quotes by Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As -fail !

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Source: Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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Two lives that once part are like ships that divide. 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.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Source: A Lament
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The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Source: Night and Morning. Chap. vi.
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What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Source: today’s thought, newspaper clipping, Albert W. Daw Collection
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Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
 
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Take away the sword; States can be saved without it.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Source: Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Source: The Disowned, 1828
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Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
 
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
 
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Source: Caxtonia, Hints on Mental Culture
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