Quotes By Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.
No Category Listed.
Add this quote on your site! Click here.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
No Category Listed.
Add this quote on your site! Click here.
Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?
No Category Listed.
Add this quote on your site! Click here.
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
No Category Listed.
Add this quote on your site! Click here.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
No Category Listed.
Add this quote on your site! Click here.
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.
No Category Listed.
Add this quote on your site! Click here.
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
No Category Listed.
Add this quote on your site! Click here.
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
No Category Listed.
Add this quote on your site! Click here.
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
No Category Listed.
Add this quote on your site! Click here.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
No Category Listed.
Add this quote on your site! Click here.