John Morley Short Quotes

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You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

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It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

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You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

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Evolution is not a force but a process; not a cause but a law.

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Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

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

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The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.

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

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In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.

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

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Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.

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The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.

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Of parliamentary life:
Having the singular peculiarity of being neither business nor rest.

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Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.

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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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There are some books which cannot be adequately reviewed for twenty or thirty years after they come out.

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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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The essence of aphorism is the compression of a mass of thought into a single saying…it is good sense brought to a point.

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Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.

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The worst enemy of science is also the bitterest enemy of democracy, cest le clericalisme. The interests of science and the interests of democracy are one.

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