All William E. Gladstone Quotes
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
William E. Gladstone
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No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
William E. Gladstone
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Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
William E. Gladstone
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It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
William E. Gladstone
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William E. Gladstone
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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
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We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William E. Gladstone
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone
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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
William E. Gladstone
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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
William E. Gladstone
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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
William E. Gladstone
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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
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