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- I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual…
- Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
- That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It…
- Man is more powerful than matter.
- There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
- If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,…
- There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.
- Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
- Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
- Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
- The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
- We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
- The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
- Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
- The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
- What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
- The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
- One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its…
- Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
- Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
- Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular
- The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could see nothing more in a quotation than an extract
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