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It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Revenge is a common passion it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noblebut 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.
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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science science discovers, art creates.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is no policy like politeness and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Expression is the mystery of beauty.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Patience is not passive on the contrary, it is active it is concentrated strength.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature the oldest.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
