Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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

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

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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