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“Success never needs an excuse.”

Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

British novelist known for his historical novels and Gothic tales, famous for works such as 'Peveril of the Peak' and 'Evelyn Hope'. more

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“When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.”

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“You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.”

Knows May Moments Silence Expressive Unbroken

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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.”

Evil Literature Healthy Truth Is Benefits Originals Remains Errors Forgotten Glorious Doom

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“Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.”

Money Secret Virtue Cry Terrible Vices Tongue Owners Betray Creeps Gags

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“To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.”

Ideas Earth Heaven Objects Chains Links Thinker Trifling

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.”

Should Soul Principles Repose

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.”

Men Doe Talent Masters Genius Baffled

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.”

Heart Certain Foe Gallant Great Hearts

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.”

“In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!”

Men Needs Soul Body Hours Stature

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton