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Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
John Morley
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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
John Morley
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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
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Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
John Morley
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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
John Morley
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No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley
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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
John Morley
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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.
John Morley in
Religion
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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
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley in
Politics
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A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
John Morley
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