My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
- Lord Melbourne
Side, Entertain, Instance, Transit
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
- Lord Melbourne
Some, Very, Ever, Foolish
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
- Lord Melbourne
Love, Through, Which, Incapacity
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
- Lord Melbourne
Twice, Once, Puritanical, Orthodox
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
- Lord Melbourne
Government, Duty, Prevent, Crime
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
- Lord Melbourne
Pretty, Private, Invade, Private Life
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
- Lord Melbourne
Man, Honest, Honest Man, Fool
I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
- Lord Melbourne
Wish, Everything, I Wish, Tom
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