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Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.
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Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.
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A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
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There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.
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Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.
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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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In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
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More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.
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Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.
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What's money without happiness?
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There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.
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There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
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Law dies, books never.
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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
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Revolutions are not made with rosewater.
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
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Genius has no brother.
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Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
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