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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Age
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Anger
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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Authors & Writing
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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great,The pen is mightier than the sword.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, Act II, sc. 2, 1839
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Beauty
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Choice
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Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Common Sense
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Conscience
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The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Conversation
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Deception/Lying
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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Divorce
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Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Dreams
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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Eccentric, Eccentricity
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Enemy, Enemies
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It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Enthusiasm
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Fame
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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Fate & Destiny
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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Flattery
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Forgiveness
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Friends
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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.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Books by and about Edward George Bulwer-Lytton