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He who hates vice hates men.

By John Morley
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

By John Morley
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

By John Morley
Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.

By John Morley
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

By John Morley
Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man.

By John Morley
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

By John Morley
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

By John Morley
In parliament he again pressed the necessity of reducing expenditure. Friends warned him that he was flogging a dead horse.

By John Morley
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.

By John Morley
'Active hatred of cruelty, injustice and oppression is perhaps the main difference between a good person and a bad one.'

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

By 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.

By 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.

By John Morley
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

By John Morley