Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
- John Morley
Literature, Most, Seductive, Deceiving
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Man, Politics, Silenced, Converted
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
- John Morley
Sense, Brought, Good Sense, Proverb
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
- John Morley
Emotion, Prove, Cannot, Aspiration
A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
- John Morley
Need, Himself, Interpreter
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, Heat, Pretty, Worship
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
Business, Which, Guiding, Oracles
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
- John Morley
Character, Climb, His, Limitations
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
- John Morley
Business, Great, Depart, Great Business
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
- John Morley
Politics, Choice, Constantly, Evils
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
- John Morley
Law, Process, Cause, Evolution
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
- John Morley
Good, Very, Them, Broad
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
Mankind, Very, About, Virtue
He who hates vice hates men.
- John Morley
Men, He, Hates, Vice
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
- John Morley
Politics, Field, Lies, Blunders
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