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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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 G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. 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 ready when good time comes.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

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

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

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

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

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

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

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.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

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.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton