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• The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Magic, Tongue, Language

  "Eugene Aram". Book I, Chapter VII, 1832.

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• There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weapons, Praise, Victim

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• Master books, but do not let them master you.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Patience, Book, Overcoming Addiction

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• 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

  Excellence, Wish, Desire

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• A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ideas, Yesterday, Mind

  "Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.

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• Ambition has no rest.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ambition

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 20-21, Richelieu (1839), Act III, scene 1, 1922.

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• Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Courage, Destiny, Men

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Motivation, Men, Genius

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• 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, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Success, Goal

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• Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Immoral

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• That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Views, Perfect

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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 Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Past, Men, Energy

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• If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Writing, Advice, Doubt

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• Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

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• Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Stars, Careers, Valor

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• The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Years, Way

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• He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Retirement, Retribution, Gifted

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• Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Work, Men, Solitude

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• A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, He Man, Merciful

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• 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

  Fate, Agents, Providence

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• 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

  Character, Heart, Men

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• The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Mind, Wrecks

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• Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Exercise

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, May, Enthusiasm

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• Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Philosophical, Men, Organization

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