Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton mind yesterday ideas Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton unseen done feelings The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton excellence wish desire The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton good-man brave men Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton style swagger men In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton poverty crime country To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton goal success inspirational Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton men death art Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton long-day long Poverty has strange bedfellows. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton strange-bedfellows poverty strange Master books, but do not let them master you. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton overcoming-addiction patience book A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton merciful he-man men Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton pardon forgiving men Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton women century mother Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton immoral In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul! Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton soul men needs It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton errors practice mean As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton saint men people There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton aristocracy wealth democratic Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton castles cost air
