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Fate laughs at probabilities.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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More quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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 Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men who make money rarely saunter men who save money rarely swagger.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poets alone are sure of immortality they are the truest diviners of nature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run a thousand people read his work who would read no other inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In some exquisite critical hints on Eurythmy, Goethe remarks, that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story. And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Prudence, patience, labor, valor these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton