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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Power
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
Remorse
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
Deceit
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
Mind
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The pen is mightier than the sword.
Writers and Writing
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
Enthusiasm
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Eccentricity
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Fate
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Vanity
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Sorrow
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Aid and Assistance
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Writers and Writing
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
Youth
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.
Youth
Bumper Sticker

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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
United Nations
Ralph Bunche

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Government
Basil Bunting

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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Patriotism
Luis Bunuel

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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
Memory
Luis Bunuel

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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Luis Bunuel

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Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
Vice
Luis Bunuel

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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
Giving
John Bunyan

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The more he cast away the more he had.
Generosity
John Bunyan

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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
Doubt
John Bunyan

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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Sculptures
Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun