Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", as well as the well-known opening line "It was a dark and stormy night"...
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There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves.
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It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything
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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
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Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny
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Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength
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The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
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Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action
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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
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The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
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In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As - fail
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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman