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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.