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John Morley
British
Statesman
About the author
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Law
#Cause
#Evolution
#Force
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Man
#Business
#Learning
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Crime
#Pretty
#Duty
#Sun
#Laws
#Worship
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Man
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Trouble
#Act
#Virtue
#Mankind
#Improvement
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Life
#Business
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Choice
#Lies
#Politics
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Character
#Man
#Limitations
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Choice
#Politics
He who hates vice hates men.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Men
#Vice
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Worth
#Opinions
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Sense
A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Life
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Emotion
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
John Morley,
British
Statesman
#Literature