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Famous Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
“O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.”
“To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.”
“The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it”
“Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it”
“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.”
“When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”
“A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.”
“The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.”
“Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.”
“There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.”
“Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.”
“Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.”
“Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.”
“A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.”
“There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.”
“Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.”
“Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.”
“Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.”
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”
“And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.”