Gilbert Parker
Gilbert Parker
Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC, known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 November 1862
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He was of those who hypnotize themselves, who glow with self-creation, who flower and bloom without pollen.
cherished few ideas man
Being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care.
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She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.
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What a nice mob you press fellows are - wholesale scavengers!
born mother
For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
evil knew
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
clever thinking people
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
roots imagination
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
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Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
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The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
positive influence habit
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
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Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
memories stupid world
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
beautiful mean secret
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.