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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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At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided…
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A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into…
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The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings…
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Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated.…
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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.…
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Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have…
— George Orwell
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In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the…
— James Madison
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