"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by……" — Harold Nicolson
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts."
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Harold Nicolson
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13 Quotes by Harold Nicolson
Harold Nicolson has 13 quotes on this site.
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We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We…
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Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to…
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Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
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Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender…
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To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
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The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.
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Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can.…
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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as…
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When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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