| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | John, Viscount Morley. (1838–1923) |
| | | 7911 | | Evolution is not a force but a process; not a cause but a law. |
| On Compromise. |
| 7912 | | It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. |
| On Compromise. |
| 7913 | | You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. |
| On Compromise. |
| 7914 | | The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. |
| Address on Aphorisms. 1887. |
| 7915 | | Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other. |
| Rousseau. |
| 7916 | | You can not demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration. |
| Rousseau. |
| 7917 | | Literature—the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. |
| Burke. |
| 7918 | | No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. |
| Robespierre. |
| 7919 | | A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation. |
| Emerson. |
| 7920 | | The most frightful idea that has ever corroded human nature—the idea of eternal punishment. |
| Vauvenargues. |
| 7921 | | Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. |
| Voltaire. |
| 7922 | | Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect. |
| Life of Gladstone. |
| 7923 | | Every man of us has all the centuries in him. |
| Life of Gladstone. |
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