"Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their……" — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
"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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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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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…
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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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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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