John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, OM, PC was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor.
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“A proverb is good sense brought to a point.”
John Morley
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
“In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.”
“All religions die of one disease - that of being found out”
“No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.”
“Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.”
“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”
“The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart”
“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”
“Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.”