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

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
Leave no stone unturned. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Despair makes victims sometimes victors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The easiest person to deceive is one's self. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Bright and illustrious illusions! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations
fear. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

What's money without happiness? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

He who has loved often ... has loved never. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May
And hive the the trifty sweetness for December! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I did not fall into love - I rose into love. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron 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

Women love energy and grand results. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model ... — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The food of hope is meditative action. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

As a scientist Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You speak
As one who fed on poetry. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Grief alone can teach us what is man. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Ambition has no rest. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. — Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Nothing ages like laziness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton