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Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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It is often the easiest move that completes the game.
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Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.
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Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.
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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.
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In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.
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A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom opinion than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.
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If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.
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Self-confidence is not hope it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.
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A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
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There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
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We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.
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I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
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When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle when you talk to the ignorant, brag when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.
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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.
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Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.
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Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side he will be the younger man of the two.
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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton