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That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Views, Perfect

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Writing, Advice, Doubt

The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Years, Way

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Past, Men, Energy

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Inspirational, Philosophy, Fate

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Work, Men, Solitude

Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Character, Judging, Perfection

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Stars, Careers, Valor

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Revenge, Anger, Concealed

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

Ambition has no rest.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Ambition
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 20-21, Richelieu (1839), Act III, scene 1, 1922.

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

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men, Style, Swagger

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Magic, Tongue, Language
"Eugene Aram". Book I, Chapter VII, 1832.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Courage, Destiny, Men

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

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

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Motivation, Men, Genius

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.

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

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Inspirational, May, Enthusiasm

Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Philosophical, Men, Organization

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

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Fate, Agents, Providence

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?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
People, Criticism, Faces

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

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

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Creating, Almighty, Existence

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