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Men Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
- Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
- The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
- A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
- A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher…
- A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.
- 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…
- Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime…
- Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
- 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 man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his…
- Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within…
- What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
- Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
- If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto…
- Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of…
- 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…
- Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the…
- Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than…
- To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
- Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention,…
- What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
- 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…
- Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
- Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.
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