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Politiker, Schriftsteller, "Die letzten Tage von Pompeji" (England, 1803 - 1873).

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton wäre heute 221 Jahre, 11 Monate, 5 Tage oder 81.060 Tage alt.

Geboren am 25.05.1803 in London
Gestorben am 18.01.1873 in Torquay
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• Talkers will refrain from evil speaking when listeners refrain from evil hearing.

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• That one vast thought of God which we call the world.

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• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

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• The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

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• The easiest person to deceive is oneself.

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• The main reason why silence is so efficacious an element of repute is, first, because of that magnification which proverbially belongs to the unknown; and, secondly, because silence provokes no mans envy, and wounds no mans self-love.

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• The prudent man may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates it.

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• The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

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• The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

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• The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

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• There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves, otherwise the knaves could not exist.

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• There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

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• There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

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• There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

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• There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

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• Three things are ever silent: Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.

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• To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

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• To bear one's fate means to conquer it.

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• To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

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• To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

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