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Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
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The pen is mightier than the sword (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
He that fancies himself very enlightened because he sees the deficiencies of others may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Fate laughs at probabilities (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow men as a natural food (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
The past but lives in words; a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale, unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
I cannot love as I have loved, and yet I know not why; it is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
In all cases of heartache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning - place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
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 (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half - pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: No room for your ladyship; pass on (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
There is scarcely as good critic of books born in our age, and yet every fool thinks himself justified in criticising persons (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)
Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view (Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes)