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Power Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- 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…
- A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
- What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
- Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
- The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just…
- What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They…
- Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
- Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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