63 Quotes by Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

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    Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as you go.

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    We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.

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    Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

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    Lips with such sweetness in their honeyed deeps. As fills the rose in which a fairy sleeps.

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

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    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.

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