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> [Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/wealth-brings-noble-opportunities-and-competence-is-a-proper-object/)

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## More by George Stillman Hillard

> [Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/wealth-brings-noble-opportunities-and-competence-is-a-proper-object/)

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> [The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/the-ruin-of-most-men-dates-from-some-idle-moment/)

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> [There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/there-are-no-eyes-so-sharp-as-the-eyes-of-hatred/)

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> [Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/sunsets-in-themselves-are-generally-superior-to-sunrises-but-with-the/)

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> [Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/many-persons-feel-art-some-understand-it-but-few-both-feel-and/)

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> [Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/misfortunes-have-their-dignity-and-their-redeeming-power/)

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> [If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/if-liberty-with-law-is-fire-on-the-hearth-liberty-without-law-is-fire/)

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> [One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/one-might-feel-indignant-at-the-injustice-which-deals-out-what-is/)

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> [It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/it-may-be-too-much-to-expect-that-nations-should-be-governed-in-their/)

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> [Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/strategy-is-the-most-important-department-of-the-art-of-war-and/)

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> [A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/a-sluggish-dawdling-and-dilatory-man-may-have-spasms-of-activity-but/)

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> [A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/a-vacant-mind-invites-dangerous-inmates-as-a-deserted-mansion-tempts/)

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> [The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/the-force-of-selfishness-is-as-inevitable-and-as-calculable-as-the/)

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> [Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/ambition-is-not-a-weakness-unless-it-be-disproportioned-to-the/)

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> [The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-stillman-hillard/the-malignity-that-never-forgets-or-forgives-is-found-only-in-base/)

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