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John Morley [1838-1923] British
Rank: 104
Statesman, Former Lord President of the Council


John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM PC was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883.

Business, Great, Learning, Politics, Religion



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No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
101
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart. Business, Great
102
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
103
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
104
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. Religion
105
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
106
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
107
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. Politics
108
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
109
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
110
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.
111
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
112
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. Learning
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A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
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He who hates vice hates men.
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