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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Purpose, Genius, Fine

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Contempt, Feels

Women love energy and grand results.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Energy, Results

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Crazy, Thinking, Genius

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Friendship, Character, Men

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Writing, Past, Landmarks

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, People, Principles

Business first, then pleasure.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Firsts, Pleasure, Business First

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Lying, Men, Perfection

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Gun, Law, Missing

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Character, Army, Men

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Heaven, Crime

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Children, Childhood, Genius

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fate, Chance, Turns

Master books, but do not let them master you.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Patience, Book, Overcoming Addiction

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Immoral

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

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Friendship, Communication, Men

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Abuse, Reform, Revolution
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 672-73, speech in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill, 1922.

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.

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

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, He Man, Merciful

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Self Improvement, Care, Merit

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

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Helping Others, World, Pounds

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