John Morley Quotes and Quotations
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart. Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders. You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place, or in the second place. He who hates vice hates men. No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect. No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
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