"Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis……" — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
"Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked."
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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20 Quotes by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than…
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last…
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There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We…
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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…
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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…
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of…
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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of…
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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would…
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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four…
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The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than…
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More Anxiety Quotes
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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Now is the age of anxiety.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
— Clive Barker
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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence…
— Clive Barker
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
— Saint Basil
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
— Bob Beauprez
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes…
— Martha Beck
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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