1. Edward G Bulwer-Lytton Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty more..more..

2. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. #Repentance#Repentance

3. “ Edward G 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. #Mind #Mind

4. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. #Age and Aging#Age and Aging

5. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton:Art and science have their meeting point in method. #Science and Scientists#Science and Scientists

6. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: 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. #Praise#Praise

7. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. #Age and Aging#Age and Aging

8. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: 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. #Success#Success

9. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. #Enthusiasm #Enthusiasm

10. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. #Sorrow #Sorrow

11. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. #Inconsistency#Inconsistency

12. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton:When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. #Opinions#Opinions

13. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest. #Books - Reading#Books - Reading

14. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. #Fate#Fate

15. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: Two lives that once part are as ships that divide. #Divorce#Divorce

16. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. #Heart#Heart

17. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever. #Lies and Lying#Lies and Lying

18. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. #Happiness #Happiness

19. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. #Patience#Patience

20. “ Edward G 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. #Proverbs #Proverbs

21. “ Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. #Philosophers and Philosophy#Philosophers and Philosophy

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