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“Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Purpose #Genius #Fine
“Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Wisdom #Passion #Fire
“There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Heart #Character #Men
“We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Beautiful #Dark #Feelings
“Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Kindness #Men #Perfect
“To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Heart #Character #Men
“If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Heart #Credit #Letters
“A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Lying #Mind #Half
“It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Strong #Heart #Dark
“Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Reading #Exercise #Purpose
“Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Divorce #Two #Ships
“Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Art #Men #Soul
“But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Country #Dog #Kindness
“What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Men #Purpose #Want
“Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Lonely #Mind #Punctuality
“The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Clever #Mean #Men
“The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Success #Men #Purpose
“Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Giving #Tree #Shelter
“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Lying #Rain #Dark
“Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Art #Men #Ideas
“As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Flirting #Games #Excitement
“Writers are the main landmarks of the past.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Past #Landmarks
“It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Time #Heart #Hair
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Inspirational #Education #Teacher
“A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Abuse #Reform #Revolution
“Revolutions are not made with rosewater.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Revolution #Made
“Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Real #Philosophy #Believe
“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.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Men #Wealth #Prosperity
“I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Enemy #Fool #Energetic
“More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.”
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Book #Eye #Library

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