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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
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"The strong and virtuous admit no destiny." -
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
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Top 5 quotes from Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"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."
"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."
"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."
"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other."
"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."
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"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery."
"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
"Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. "
"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake."
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