"The simple record of these three short years……" — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
"The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists."
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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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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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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
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