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It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Moving, Games, Finishing

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Strong, Soul, Fusion

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Education, University, University Education

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Character, Pawns

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Patience, Names, Doe

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Giving, May, Chance

Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

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

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Erring, Purgatory, Labor

Read to live, not live to read.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Book, Eye, Library

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Purpose, Want

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Errors, Evil, Healthy

Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Education, Father, Men

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Eye, Violet, Vibrations

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Children, Jars, Mirth
"Kenelm Chillingly; His Adventures and Opinions". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1873.

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Beauty, Art, Curves

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Time, Wells, My Friends

A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Winning, Men, Common Sense

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Character, Two, Waiting

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Giving, Tree, Shelter

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Hope, Grief, Waste

Laws die, books never.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Book, Reading, Law
"Richelieu" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Act I, scene 2, 1839.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Lying, Secret, Belief

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Air, Castles, Cost

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Reading, Book, Fool

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