Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

(458 votes)   A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(303 votes)   A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(287 votes)   When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(281 votes)   We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(259 votes)   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.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(230 votes)   Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(215 votes)   The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(214 votes)   Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(214 votes)   Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(201 votes)   Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(199 votes)   The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(198 votes)   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!

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(190 votes)   Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(187 votes)   The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(185 votes)   There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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