All William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes
- One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune. Character
- Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as… Abortion
- There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of… Allay
- Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance. Advance
- The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The… Afflict
- In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism. Been
- There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday,… All
- Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the… Age
- Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. Innocent
- Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. Anxiety
- I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and… Butcher
- The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in… Among
- The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers… Active
- The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have… Admitted
- Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in Europe, those in… All
- The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At… Acts
- There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and… Been
- Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal. Abnormal
- The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have… Admitted
- Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with… Distinct