What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonTalent does what it can: Genius does what it must.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonA good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonHe who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
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Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
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Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, --it steals away the freshness of life, --it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, --it shuts our souls to our own youth, --and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe pen is mightier than the sword!
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonIn life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
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