English - Politician | May 25, 1803 - January 18, 1873
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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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.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
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The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
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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 another.
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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
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Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
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