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William Edward Hartpole Lecky has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either…
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded…
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There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize…
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Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…
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In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
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There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we…
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and…
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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so…
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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous…
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Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks,…
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Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have…
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Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
— William Shakespeare
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Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
— Charles Dickens
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The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe;…
— Margaret Atwood
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What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?
— William Shakespeare
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Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.
— William Shakespeare
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Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace.…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
— Elizabeth Drew
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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
— Elizabeth Drew
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Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will…
— Thomas Dekker
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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
— Elizabeth Drew
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