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The Stage Is A Supplement To The Pulpit, Where Virtue, According To Plato's Sublime Idea, Moves Our Love And Affection When Made Visible To The Eye.

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The Stage Is A Supplement To The Pulpit, Where Virtue, According To Plato's Sublime Idea, Moves Our Love And Affection When Made Visible To The Eye.

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The Gondola Of London [a Hansom].

Modern Science Has Vindicated The Natural Equality Of Man.

Fame Has Eagle Wings, And Yet She Mounts Not So High As Man's Desires.

A Protestant, If He Wants Aid Or Advice On Any Matter, Can Only Go To His Solicitor.

As A Rule, Man Is A Fool. When It's Hot, He Wants It Cool; When Its Cool, He Wants It Hot. Always Wanting, What Is Not.

An Amateur May Not Be An Artist, Though An Artist Should Be An Amateur.

England Is A Domestic Country. Here The Home Is Revered And The Hearth Sacred. The Nation Is Represented By A Family,--the Royal Family,--and If That Family Is Educated With A Sense Of Responsibility And A Sentiment Of Public Duty, It Is Difficult To Exaggerate The Salutary Influence It May Exercise Over A Nation.

No Man Will Treat With Indifference The Principle Of Race. It Is The Key To History, And Why History Is Often So Confused Is That It Has Been Written By Men Who Are Ignorant Of This Principle And All The Knowledge It Involves. . . Language And Religion Do Not Make A Race--there Is Only One Thing Which Makes A Race, And That Is Blood.

The World Is Ruled By Other People, Than People Believe To Know.

Nature Has Given Us Two Ears But Only One Mouth.

Never Take Anything For Granted.

What Art Was To The Ancient World, Science Is To The Modern; The Distinctive Faculty. In The Minds Of Men, The Useful Has Succeeded To The Beautiful.

The Profound Thinker Always Suspects That He Is Superficial.

The Best Security For Civilization Is The Dwelling, And Upon Properly Appointed And Becoming Dwellings Depends, More Than Anything Else, The Improvement Of Mankind.

Why, I Say, That To Tax The Community For The Advantage Of A Class Is Not Protection; It Is Plunder, And I Entirely Disclaim It; But I Ask You To Protect The Rights And Interests Of Labour Generally In The First Place, By Allowing No Free Imports From Countries Which Meet You With Countervailing Duties; And, In The Second Place, With Respect To Agricultural Produce, To Compensate The Soil For The Burdens From Which Other Classes Are Free By An Equivalent Duty. This Is My View Of What Is Called "protection."

There Is No Waste Of Time In Life Like That Of Making Explanations.

The Canter Is A Cure For Every Evil.

Difficulties Melt Away Under Tact.

Man Is Only Truly Great When He Acts From The Passions; Never Irresistible But When He Appeals To The Imagination.

A Realist Is A Man Who Insists On Making The Same Mistakes His Grandfather Did.

There Are Amusing People Who Do Not Interest, And Interesting People Who Do Not Amuse

Some Will Read Only Old Books, As If There Were No Valuable Truths To Be Discovered In Modern Publications: Others Will Only Read New Books, As If Some Valuable Truths Are Not Among The Old. Some Will Not Read A Book Because They Know The Author: Others . . . Would Also Read The Man.

Despair Is The Conclusion Of Fools.

The People Of England Are The Most Enthusiastic In The World.

That Youthful Fervor, Which Is Sometimes Called Enthusiasm, But Which Is A Heat Of Imagination Subsequently Discovered To Be Inconsistent With The Experience Of Actual Life.

We Are Taught Words, Not Ideas.

Circumstances Are Beyond Human Control, But Our Conduct Is In Our Own Power.

When I Want To Read A Novel, I Write One.

Is Man An Ape Or An Angel? Now I Am On The Side Of The Angels.

Be Thine Own Privy Counsellor.

We Are Now In Want Of An Art To Teach How Books Are To Be Read Rather Than To Read Them. Such An Art Is Practicable.

Luck Is What A Capricious Man Believes In.

Colonies Do Not Cease To Be Colonies Because They Are Independent.

I Believe That, Without Party, Parliamentary Government Is Impossible.

Romance Has Been Elegantly Defined As The Offspring Of Fiction And Love.

I Do Not Like Giving Advice: It Is Incurring An Unnecessary Responsibility.

He Was Distinguished For Ignorance; For He Had Only One Idea, And That Was Wrong.

A Nation, As An Individual, Has Duties To Fulfill Appointed By God And His Moral Law.

No Conjunction Can Possibly Occur, However Fearful, However Tremendous It May Appear, From Which A Man By His Own Energy May Not Extricate Himself, As A Mariner By The Rattling Of His Cannon Can Dissipate The Impending Waterspout.

A Sophisticated Rhetorician, Inebriated With The Exuberance Of His Own Verbosity.

Debt Is A Prolific Mother Of Folly And Of Crime.

Never Argue. In Society Nothing Must Be; Give Only Results. If Any Person Differs From You, Bow, And Turn The Conversation.

Without Publicity There Can Be No Public Support, And Without Public Support Every Nation Must Decay.

It Is The Lot Of Man To Suffer.

An Insular Country, Subject To Fogs, And With A Powerful Middle Class, Requires Grave Statesmen.

Next To The Assumption Of Power Was The Responsibility Of Relinquishing It.

Be Amusing: Never Tell Unkind Stories; Above All, Never Tell Long Ones.

Tobacco Is The Tomb Of Love.

The Care Of The Public Health Is The First Duty Of The Statesman.

No, It Is Better Not. She Will Only Ask Me To Take A Message To Albert.

Perseverance And Tact Are The Two Most Important Qualities For The Individual Who Wants To Move Ahead.

Let The Fear Of A Danger Be A Spur To Prevent It; He That Fears Not, Gives Advantage To The Danger.

Like All Great Travellers, I Have Seen More Than I Remember, And Remember More Than I Have Seen.

We Live In Age Of Prudence. The Leaders Of The People Now Generally Follow.

There Is No Greater Sin Than To Be Trop Prononce.

There Are Few Positions Less Inspiriting Than Those Of A Discomfited Party.

A Female Friend, Amiable, Clever, And Devoted, Is A Possession More Valuable Than Parks And Palaces; And Without Such A Muse, Few Men Can Succeed In Life, None Be Contented.

The Enterprise Of America Precedes That Of Europe, As The Industry Of England Precedes That Of The Rest Of Europe.

Governments Do Not Govern, But Merely Control The Machinery Of Government, Being Themselves Controlled By The Hidden Hand.

I Have Climbed To The Top Of The Greasy Pole!

How Fair Is A Garden Amid The Toils And Passions Of Existence.

You Will Find As You Grow Older That Courage Is The Rarest Of All Qualities To Be Found In Public Life.

Mediocrity Can Talk, But It Is For Genius To Observe.

Without Tact You Can Learn Nothing.

Real Politics Are The Possession And Distribution Of Power.

Distribution Of Power

A Practical Man Is A Man Who Practices The Errors Of His Forefathers.

Nowadays, Manners Are Easy And Life Is Hard.

I Am Prepared For The Worst, But Hope For The Best.

A University Should Be A Place Of Light, Of Liberty, And Of Learning.

The More Extensive A Man's Knowledge Of What Has Been Done, The Greater Will Be His Power Of Knowing What To Do.

I Was Told, Continued Egremont, That An Impassable Gulf Divided The Rich From The Poor; I Was Told That The Privileged And The People Formed Two Nations, Governed By Different Laws, Influenced By Different Manners, With No Thoughts Or Sympathies In Common; With An Innate Inability Of Mutual Comprehension.

Turtle Makes All Men Equal.

Cosmopolitan Critics, Men Who Are The Friends Of Every Country Save Their Own.

If The History Of England Be Ever Written By One Who Has The Knowledge And The Courage,-and Both Qualities Are Equally Requisite For The Undertaking, - The World Will Be More Astonished Than When Reading The Roman Annals By Niebuhr.

Man Is Made To Adore And To Obey: But If You Will Not Command Him, If You Give Him Nothing To Worship, He Will Fashion His Own Divinities, And Find A Chieftain In His Own Passions.

In Art The Greeks Were The Children Of The Egyptians. The Day May Yet Come When We Shall Do Justice To The High Powers Of That Mysterious And Imaginative People.

The Press Is Not Only Free, It Is Powerful. That Power Is Ours. It Is The Proudest That Man Can Enjoy.

You Cannot Choose Between Party Government And Parliamentary Government. I Say, You Can Have No Parliamentary Government If You Have No Party Government; And, Therefore, When Gentlemen Denounce Party Government, They Strike At The Scheme Of Government Which, In My Opinion, Has Made This Country Great, And Which I Hope Will Keep It Great.

Protection Is Not A Principle But An Expedient

Moderation Is The Center Wherein All Philosophies, Both Human And Divine, Meet.

The Right Honourable Gentleman Caught The Whigs Bathing, And Walked Away With Their Clothes. He Has Left Them In The Full Enjoyment Of Their Liberal Positions, And He Is Himself A Strict Conservative Of Their Garments.

Patience Is A Necessary Ingredient Of Genius.

The Best Way To Become Acquainted With A Subject Is To Write About It.

What Is Wanted In Architecture, As In So Many Things, Is A Man. ... One Suggestion Might Be Made-no Profession In England Has Done Its Duty Until It Has Furnished A Victim. ... Even Our Boasted Navy Never Achieved A Great Victory Until We Shot An Admiral. Suppose An Architect Were Hanged? Terror Has Its Inspiration, As Well As Competition.

All Power Is A Trust, That We Are Accountable For Its Exercise.

Jews Show So Near An Affinity To You... Where Is Your Christianity If You Do Not Believe In Their Judaism?

Here's To The Man Who Rode The Race, Who Took The Time, Who Kept The Time, And Who Did The Trick.

It Was Not Reason That Besieged Troy; It Was Not Reason That Sent Forth The Saracen From The Desert To Conquer The World; That Inspired The Crusades; That Instituted The Monastic Orders; It Was Not Reason That Produced The Jesuits; Above All, It Was Not Reason That Created The French Revolution. Man Is Only Great When He Acts From The Passions; Never Irresistible But When He Appeals To The Imagination.

Conquer The World

I Think There Is Nothing More Lovely Than The Love Of Two Beautiful Women Who Are Not Envious Of Each Other's Charms.

Without Dancing You Can Never Attain A Perfectly Graceful Carriage, Which Is Of The Highest Importance In Life.

I Will Sit Down Now, But The Time Will Come When You Will Hear Me.

You Behold A Range Of Exhausted Volcanoes. Not A Flame Flickers On A Single Pallid Crest.

The Art Of Governing Mankind By Deceiving Them.

What We Call The Heart Is A Nervous Sensation, Like Shyness, Which Gradually Disappears In Society. It Is Fervent In The Nursery, Strong In The Domestic Circle, Tumultuous At School.

Next To Knowing When To Seize An Opportunity, The Most Important Thing In Life Is To Know When To Forego An Advantage.

No Affection And A Great Brain, These Are The People To Command The World.

The Originality Of A Subject Is In Its Treatment.

That Earliest Shock In One's Life Which Occurs To All Of Us; Which First Makes Us Think.

Nothing In Life Is More Remarkable Than The Unnecessary Anxiety Which We Endure, And Generally Create Ourselves.

One Secret Of Success In Life Is For A Man To Be Ready For His Opportunity When It Comes.

Silence Is The Mother Of Truth.

There Is Scarcely Any Popular Tenet More Erroneous Than That Which Holds That When Time Is Slow, Life Is Dull.

The Athanasian Creed Is The Most Splendid Ecclesiastical Lyric Ever Poured Forth By The Genius Of Man.

Popular Privileges Are Consistent With A State Of Society In Which There Is Great Inequality Of Position. Democratic Rights, On The Contrary, Demand That There Should Be Equality Of Condition As The Fundamental Basis Of The Society They Regulate.

I Am Myself A Gentleman Of The Press, And Have No Other Escutcheon.

Quit The World, And The World Forgets You.

Accent And Emphasis Are The Pith Of Reading; Punctuation Is But Secondary.

It Is Well-known What A Middleman Is: He Is A Man Who Bamboozles One Party And Plunders The Other.

Change Is Constant In A Progressive Country.

Consider Ireland.... You Have A Starving Population, An Absentee Aristocracy, And An Alien Church, And In Addition The Weakest Executive In The World. That Is The Irish Question.

Our Domestic Affections Are The Most Salutary Basis Of All Good Government.

She Is An Excellent Creature, But She Can Never Remember Which Came First, The Greeks Or The Romans.

It Has Been Said That The People Of This Country Are Deeply Interested In The Humanitarian And Philanthropic Considerations Involved In [the Eastern Question]. All Must Appreciate Such Feelings. But I Am Mistaken If There Be Not A Yet Deeper Sentiment On The Part Of The People Of This Country, One With Which I Cannot Doubt Your Lordships Will Ever Sympathise, And That Is - The Determination To Maintain The Empire Of England.

Fame And Power Are The Objects Of All Men. Even Their Partial Fruition Is Gained By Very Few; And That, Too, At The Expense Of Social Pleasure, Health, Conscience, Life.

There Is No Waste Of Time Like Making Excuses.

Poverty Has Its Duties As Well As Its Rights.

I Will Not Go Down To Posterity Talking Bad Grammar.

Expediency Is A Law Of Nature. The Camel Is A Wonderful Animal, But The Desert Made The Camel.

Eloquence Is The Child Of Knowledge.

The Character Of A Woman Rapidly Develops After Marriage, And Sometimes Seems To Change, When In Fact It Is Only Complete.

The Most Powerful Men Are Not Public Men: A Public Man Is Responsible, And A Responsible Man Is A Slave. It Is Private Life That Governs The World.

The Greatest Good You Can Do For Another Is Not Just To Share Your Riches But To Reveal To Him His Own.

News Is That Which Comes From The North, East, West And South, And If It Comes From Only One Point On The Compass, Then It Is A Class; Publication And Not News.

An Obedient Wife Commands Her Husband.

What Appear To Be Calamities Are Often The Sources Of Fortune.

I Do Not Believe Such A Quality As Chance Exists. Every Incident That Happens Must Be A Link In A Chain.

Diligence Is The Mother Of Good Fortune.

A Man May Speak Very Well In The House Of Commons, And Fail Very Completely In The House Of Lords. There Are Two Distinct Styles Requisite: I Intend, In The Course Of My Career, If I Have Time, To Give A Specimen Of Both.

If A Man Be Gloomy Let Him Keep To Himself. No One Has The Right To Go Croaking About Society, Or What Is Worse, Looking As If He Stifled Grief.

Action May Not Always Bring Happiness; But There Is No Happiness Without Action.

London Owes Everything To Its Press: It Owes As Much To Its Press As It Does To Its Being The Seat Of Government And The Law.

A Precedent Embalms A Principle.

When Men Are Pure, Laws Are Useless; When Men Are Corrupt, Laws Are Broken.

Books Are The Curse Of The Human Race.

If Confidence Is A Plant Of Slow Growth, Credit Is One Which Matures Much More Slowly.

Meditation Is Culture.

I Am Bound To Furnish My Antagonists With Arguments, But Not With Comprehension.

Where Knowledge Ends, Religion Begins.

The World Is Devoted To Physical Science, Because It Believes Theses Discoveries Will Increase Its Capacity Of Luxury And Self-indulgence. But The Pursuit Of Science Only Leads To The Insoluble.

Man Is More Powerful Than Matter.

I Grew Intoxicated With My Own Eloquence.

At Present The Peace Of The World Has Been Preserved, Not By Statesmen, But By Capitalists.

There Is Anguish In The Recollection That We Have Not Adequately Appreciated The Affection Of Those Whom We Have Loved And Lost.

An Author Can Have Nothing Truly His Own But His Style.

I Have Brought Myself, By Long Meditation, To The Conviction That A Human Being With A Settled Purpose Must Accomplish It, And That Nothing Can Resist A Will Which Will Stake Even Existence Upon Its Fulfillment.

Two Nations Between Whom There Is No Intercourse And No Sympathy; Who Are As Ignorant Of Each Other's Habits, Thoughts, And Feelings, As If They Were Dwellers In Different Zones, Or Inhabitants Of Different Planets. The Rich And The Poor.

The Press Is Not Only Free, It Is Powerful. That Power Is Ours. It Is The Proudest That Man Can Enjoy. It Was Not Granted By Monarchs, It Was Not Gained For Us By Aristocracies; But It Sprang From The People, And, With An Immortal Instinct, It Has Always Worked For The People.

It Is Knowledge That Influences And Equalizes The Social Condition Of Man; That Gives To All, However Different Their Political Position, Passions Which Are In Common, And Enjoyments Which Are Universal.

The Depositary Of Power Is Always Unpopular.

Nobody Should Ever Look Anxious Except Those Who Have No Anxiety.

Religion Is Civilization, The Highest.

Upon The Education Of The People Of This Country The Fate Of This Country Depends.

A Very Remarkable People The Zulus: They Defeat Our Generals, They Convert Our Bishops, They Have Settled The Fate Of A Great European Dynasty.

Age Is Frequently Beautiful, Wisdom Appearing Like An Aftermath.

I Pride Myself In Recognizing And Upholding Ability In Every Party And Wherever I Meet It.

Man Is Not The Creature Of Circumstances, Circumstances Are The Creatures Of Men. We Are Free Agents, And Man Is More Powerful Than Matter.

Novelty Is An Essential Attribute Of The Beautiful.

Party Is Organized Opinion.

Never Complain And Never Explain.

Her Majesty Is Not A Subject.

The Palace Is Not Safe When The Cottage Is Not Happy.

The Duke Of Wellington Brought To The Post Of First Minister Immortal Fame,-a Quality Of Success Which Would Almost Seem To Include All Others.

A Member Of Parliament To Disraeli: 'sir, You Will Either Die On The Gallows Or Of Some Unspeakable Disease.' That Depends, Sir,' Said Disraeli, 'whether I Embrace Your Policies Or Your Mistress.

Nurture Your Minds With Great Thoughts. To Believe In The Heroic Makes Heroes.

It Is Remarkable That When Great Discoveries Are Effected, Their Simplicity Always Seems To Detract From Their Originality: On These Occasions We Are Reminded Of The Egg Of Columbus!

Destiny Bears Us To Our Lot, And Destiny Is Perhaps Our Own Will.

Lady Lytton Rules Her Husband, But That I Suppose Is Always The Case Where Marriages Are What Is Called 'happy'.

Never Apologize For Showing Feeling. When You Do So, You Apologize For The Truth.

Gentl, I Am A Party Man. I Believe That, Without Party, Parliamentary Government Is Impossible. I Look Upon Parliamentary Government As The Noblest Government In The World, And Certainly The One Most Suited To England.

More Pernicious Nonsense Was Never Devised By Man Than Treaties Of Commerce.

As Men Advance In Life, All Passions Resolve Themselves Into Money. Love, Ambition, Even Poetry, End In This.

He Who Gains Time Gains Everything.

Time Management

Beware Of Endeavoring To Become A Great Man In A Hurry. One Such Attempt In Ten Thousand May Succeed. These Are Fearful Odds.

William Gladstone Has Not A Single Redeeming Defect.

We Make Our Fortunes And We Call Them Fate.

You Must Originate, And You Must Sympathize; Yon Must Possess, At The Same Time, The Habit Of Communicating And The Habit Of Listening. The Union Is Rather Rare, But Irresistible.

Money Is Power, And Rare Are The Heads That Can Withstand The Possession Of Great Power.

In Politics Experiments Means Revolutions.

What Is Earnest Is Not Always True; On The Contrary Error Is Often More Earnest Than Truth.

The Sweet Simplicity Of The Three Percents.

The Essence Of Education Is The Education Of The Body.

As A General Rule, The Most Successful Man In Life Is The Man Who Has The Best Information.

"as For That," Said Waldenshare, "sensible Men Are All Of The Same Religion." "pray, What Is That?" Inquired The Prince. "sensible Men Never Tell."

Why Should One Say That The Machine Does Not Live? It Breathes, For Its Breath Forms The Atmosphere Of Some Towns.

Enthusiasm Is The Breath Of Genius.

The Health Of The People Is Really The Foundation Upon Which All Their Happiness And All Their Powers As A State Depend.

Through Perseverance Many People Win Success Out Of What Seemed Destined To Be Certain Failure.

Variety Is The Mother Of Enjoyment.

The Legacy Of Heroes Is The Memory Of A Great Name And The Inheritance Of A Great Example.

I Look Upon Parliamentary Government As The Noblest Government In The World, And Certainly One Most Suited To England. But Without The Discipline Of Political Connection, Animated By The Principle Of Private Honor, I Feel Certain That A Popular Assembly Would Sink Before The Power Or The Corruption Of A Minister.

Man Is Made To Create, From The Poet To The Potter.

The Very Phrase 'foreign Affairs' Makes An Englishman Convinced That I Am About To Treat Of Subjects With Which He Has No Concern.

The World Is A Wheel, And It Will All Come Round Right.

The Greeks Adored Their Gods By The Simple Compliment Of Kissing Their Hands; And The Romans Were Treated As Atheists If They Would Not Perform The Same Act When They Entered A Temple. This Custom, However, As A Religious Ceremony Declined With Paganism,but Was Continued As A Salutation By Inferiors To Their Superiors, Or As A Token Of Esteem Among Friends.

Success Is The Child Of Audacity.

The Sympathy Of Sorrow Is Stronger Than The Sympathy Of Prosperity.

Talk To A Man About Himself And He Will Listen For Hours.

Christianity Teaches Us To Love Our Neighbor As Ourself; Modern Society Acknowledges No Neighbor.

London Is A Modern Babylon.

Almost Everything That Is Great Has Been Done By Youth.

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