Quotes by Morley, John

"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."

Morley, John on evolution   

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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."

Morley, John on aphorisms and epigrams   

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"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."

Morley, John on literature   

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"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."

Morley, John on opinions   

"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."

Morley, John on politics   

"A proverb is good sense brought to a point."

Morley, John on proverbs   

"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."

Morley, John on business   

"He who hates vice hates men."

Morley, John on vice   

"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."

Morley, John on complacency