What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton More Quotes From Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton enthusiasm positive inspirational Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton genius doe men Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton character believe past The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton gallant certain heart Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton principles soul should 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. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton gratitude real friendship The easiest person to deceive is one's self. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton hype honesty truth Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton calm aspect power Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton piano music soul In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton beautiful beauty life When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton pawns character You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton unbroken silence may It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton errors healthy evil Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton money vices secret To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton links heaven ideas If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton prime purpose littles When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton calm anger sound It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton hair heart time Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton passive be-patient patience Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton love-is laughing life
