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Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Related How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who
writes verses builds it in granite.... EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Who that has loved knows not the tender tale
Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?
... EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature,
the oldest. The classic literatu... EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th... APURVA GAGLANI A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think... GARY F EVANS... Politics: Poly. MANY She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL When the prospects of fame fortune bring thought to a life of no worry, it brings other worries in t... GARY F EVANS... A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON To know the hurt of what losing a loved one brings. Well put it this way time does not heal, you lea... GARY F EVANS... We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more. DEYTH BANGER The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge " (2.22)... JAMES JOYCE Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study... APURVA GAGLANI A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. GEORG CANTOR Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold MARTY RUBIN Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Many a live wire would be a dead one except for his connections WILSON MIZNER When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others. APURVA GAGLANI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis... GARY F EVANS... and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of... BRET EASTON ELLIS I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference. MARILYN MANSON if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love. MORIHEI UESHIBA I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don... ELLIOT MABEUSE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I don't intend to be the richest person in the cemetery, my wealth is the legacy I leave behind AMANDA OKOLI When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE
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EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise. EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest. EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, b... 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BULWER-LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few, but... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Nature's loving proxy, the watching mother EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and v... EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t... EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Art and science have their meeting point in method. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own sh... EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts i... EDWARD BULWER LYTTON Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Oh, better, no doubt, is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs, And swe... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed Ere it... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of t... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Humor is the sunshine of the mind EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Fate laughs at probabilities EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The world's a nettle. Disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many ... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy 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 energ... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middl... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part ... EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be dr... EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON "Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time... EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON He who has little silver in his pouch must have the more silk on his tongue EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the s... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose y... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Writers are the main landmarks of the past. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over ... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with t... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which m... EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to wan... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it w... EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON He who has little silver in his pouch must have the more silk on his tongue EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality EDWARD G. 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BULWER-LYTTON Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In science, address the few, in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to th... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Revolutions are not made with rosewater EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he may lose it EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be re... EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius. EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with ... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him ... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation... EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON 'It is destiny' phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The st... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . . EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy a... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Two lives that once part are as ships that divide. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturni... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The easiest person to deceive is one's self. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Art and science have their meeting point in method. EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of
power. EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON --To live
On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces,
Gallant in steeds; splendid in banq... EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Sublime Philosophy!
Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;
And bright with beckonin... EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON