John Morley
Statesman
1838-12-24
Quotes by John Morley
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He who hates vice hates men.
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No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
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Scarcely any literature is so entirely unprofitable as the so-called criticism that overlays a pity text with a windy sermon.
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All thoughts are always ready, potentially if not actually. Each age selects and assimilates the philosophy that is most apt for its wants.
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The true inquisitor is a creature of policy, not a man of blood by taste.
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Conceit and presumption have not been any more fatal to the world, than the waste which comes of great men failing in their hearts to recognise how great they are.
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It is not enough to do good; one must do it in the right way.
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It is one thing to study historically the ideas which have influenced our predecessors, and another thing to seek in them an influence fruitful for ourselves.
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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
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The essence of morality is the subjugation of nature in obedience to social needs.
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The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made it.
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Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.
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Our opinions are less important than the spirit and temper with which they possess us, and even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
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This is ever the test of the scholar: whether he allows intellectual fastidiousness to stand between him and the great issues of his time.
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Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
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Here is the end of the Eternal Verities, when one lets them bulk so big in his eyes as to shut out that perishable speck, the human race.
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
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He who hates vices hates men.
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Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
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