John Morley
John Morley
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM PCwas a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1886 and between 1892 and 1895, Secretary of State for India between 1905 and 1910 and again in 1911 and Lord President of the Council between 1910 and 1914. Morley was a distinguished political commentator, and biographer of his hero, William Gladstone. Morley is...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionStatesman
british-statesman general improvement mankind supposed taking
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.
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Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least
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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.
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A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
constantly politics
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
british-statesman cannot emotions
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
british-statesman brought good proverb
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
british-statesman literature
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
british-statesman man
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
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Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.