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John Morley Quotes
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The essence of morality is the subjugation of nature in obedience to social needs.
Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.
Our opinions are less important than the spirit and temper with which they possess us, and even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
This is ever the test of the scholar: whether he allows intellectual fastidiousness to stand between him and the great issues of his time.
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Here is the end of the Eternal Verities, when one lets them bulk so big in his eyes as to shut out that perishable speck, the human race.
He who hates vices hates men.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Violence Quote
Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Success Quote
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Life Quote
The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.
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