Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer ( 10 of 46 )
You speak
As one who fed on poetry.
You speak
As one who fed on poetry.
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets
to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic read more
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets
to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct
from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our
seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own
influences.
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried
is business ill done.
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried
is business ill done.
Never say
"Fail" again.
Never say
"Fail" again.
In the lexicon of youth, which
Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word
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In the lexicon of youth, which
Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word
As--fail!
Alone!--That worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing, and grief read more
Alone!--That worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,
Of hope laid waste, knells in that word--Alone!
There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to
triumph.
It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to
triumph.
Laws die, Books never.
Laws die, Books never.
