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> [Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist through which we get glimpses now and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/each-must-act-as-he-thinks-best-and-if-he-is-wrong-so-much-the-worse/)

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## More by James Fitzjames Stephen

> [Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/used-with-due-abstinence-hope-acts-as-a-healthful-tonic-intemperately/)

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> [The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/the-things-which-cannot-be-adequately-represented-by-words-are-more/)

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> [Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/wisdom-may-be-the-ultimate-arbiter-but-is-seldom-the-immediate-agent/)

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> [Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/each-must-act-as-he-thinks-best-and-if-he-is-wrong-so-much-the-worse/)

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> [Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/power-and-courtly-influence-form-an-intoxicating-draught-even-when/)

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> [Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/thus-hope-aided-by-imagination-makes-one-man-a-hero-another-a/)

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> [A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/a-well-judging-man-will-open-his-trunk-line-of-study-in-such-a/)

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> [A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/a-liberal-conservative-is-a-man-who-thinks-things-ought-to-progress/)

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> [To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/to-me-this-question-whether-liberty-is-a-good-or-a-bad-thing-appears/)

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> [To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/to-try-to-regulate-the-internal-affairs-of-a-family-the-relations-of/)

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> [“In all important transactions of life we have to take a leap in the dark… If we decide to leave the riddles unanswered, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/in-all-important-transactions-of-life-we-have-to-take-a-leap-in-the/)

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> [To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/to-try-to-make-men-equal-by-altering-social-arrangements-is-like/)

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> [Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/not-only-are-the-varieties-of-morality-innumerable-but-some-of-them/)

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> [Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/persuasion-indeed-is-a-kind-of-force-it-consists-in-showing-a-person/)

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> [ The result of cutting \[political power\] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into one heap… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fitzjames-stephen/the-result-of-cutting-political-power-up-into-little-bits-is-simply/)

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