There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

About Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (; 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from...

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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.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty… This is my highest and best use as a human.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone—even to himself.

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