John Morley Quotes

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• No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
• Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
• Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
• The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
• They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking…
• Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
• Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
• In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
• A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
• He who hates vice hates men.
• They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do,…
• You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
• A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
• Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
• All religions die of one disease - that of being found out
• Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters…
• The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget

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