Quotes from Lucretia — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803–1873 England
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What men want is not talent, it is purpose—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.
Lucretia (1846)
Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never. While we speak, new worlds are sparkling forth—suns are throwing off their nebulae—nebulae are hardening into worlds. The Almighty proves His existence by creating.
Lucretia (1846)
The most useless creature that ever yawned at a club, or counted the vermin on his rags under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.
Lucretia (1846)
Light literature,—that grace and flower of human culture, that best philosophy of all, humanizing us with gentle art, making us wise through the humours, elevated through the passions, tender in the affections of our kind.
Lucretia (1846)