John Morley Quotes

#1. A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

John Morley

#2. In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

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#3. The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

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#4. Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

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#5. You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

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#6. A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

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#7. Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

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#8. 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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#9. 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.

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#10. No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

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#11. He who hates vice hates men.

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#12. Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

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#13. Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.

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#14. You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

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#15. Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man

John Morley