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Ambition has no rest!
Topic: Ambition
Author: Edward George Earle
The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
Topic: Argument
Author: Edward George Earle
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,
Topic: Authorship
Author: Edward George Earle
No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Topic: Authorship
Author: Edward George Earle
Laws die, Books never.
Topic: Books
Author: Edward George Earle
Hark, the world so loud, And they, the movers of the world, so still!
Topic: Books
Author: Edward George Earle
We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace.
Topic: Books
Author: Edward George Earle
The Wise out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!
Topic: Books
Author: Edward George Earle
All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
Topic: Books
Author: Edward George Earle
There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
Topic: Books
Author: Edward George Earle
In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come; In you soars up the Adam from the fall; In you the Future as the Past is given-- Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;-- Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven, Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.
Topic: Books
Author: Edward George Earle
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
Topic: Business
Author: Edward George Earle
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
Topic: Crime
Author: Edward George Earle
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
Topic: Destiny
Author: Edward George Earle
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
Topic: Disgrace
Author: Edward George Earle
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Topic: Enemies
Author: Edward George Earle
I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
Topic: Evil
Author: Edward George Earle
It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
Topic: Evil
Author: Edward George Earle
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Topic: Evil
Author: Edward George Earle
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.
Topic: Eyes
Author: Edward George Earle
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