John Morley

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

— John Morley

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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. ↗

— John Morley

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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. ↗

— John Morley

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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. ↗

— John Morley

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You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration. ↗

— John Morley

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