Author: John Morley

Quotes

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

- John Morley

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

- John Morley

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

- John Morley

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

- John Morley

He who hates vice hates men.

He who hates vice hates men.

- John Morley

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

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

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

- John Morley

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

- John Morley

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.

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

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