John Morley Quotes

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley

Politics, Him, Silenced

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
John Morley

Life, Great, Business

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

Good, Worth, Opinions

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
John Morley

Life, Great, Himself

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
John Morley

Good, Sense, Point

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
John Morley

Law, Process, Cause

He who hates vice hates men.
John Morley

Men, Vice, Hates

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
John Morley

Politics, Two, Between

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
John Morley

Dangerous, Literature, Deceiving

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley

Character, Beyond, Climb

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
John Morley

Politics, Two, Between

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

Religion, Pretty, Sun

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
John Morley

Cannot, Emotion, Prove

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

Act, Trouble, General

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

Great, Business, Learning

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Statesman

Born: 1838

Died: 1923

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