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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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If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
— Jean Cocteau
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After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been…
— Adoniram Judson
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We must strive to move forward in life, by acknowledging the forces that are thrusted upon ourselves by means of fear, and…
— Carrot Top
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
— Sharon Salzberg
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To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
— Laozi
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Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows…
— Philip Roth
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You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone
— Adrien Brody
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Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
— Manny Pacquiao
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Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and…
— Laozi
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Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to…
— Socrates
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