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Category: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

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