"Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it……" — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
"Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long..."
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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20 Quotes by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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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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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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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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