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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Men, Doe, Genius

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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.

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Success, Men, Purpose

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Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Confidence, Self, Realization

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The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Cunning, Cleverness, Misers

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As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

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Men, People, Saint

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The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

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Money, Angel, Night

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Nothing ages like laziness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Age, Laziness

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Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

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Heart, Greatness, Men

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The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

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Creating, Almighty, Existence

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Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

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Disgrace

"Richelieu" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Act IV, scene 1, 1839.

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Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Creative, Genius, Taste

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In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Science, Judgement, Literature

Caxtoniana 'Readers and Writers'

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

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Book, Paper, Waste

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I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love, Falling In Love, Fall

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A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

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Men, Genius, Proportion

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Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

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Training, Wish, Fame

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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Heart, Sadness, Sorrow

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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

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Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Men, Appearance, Jackets

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People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

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People, Criticism, Faces

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And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Friendship, Faithful, Earth

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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

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Love, Busy, Indolence

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He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Philosopher, Advantage, Trifles

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It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

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Evil, Literature, Doom

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Born: May 25, 1803
Died: January 18, 1873
Occupation: Novelist
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