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To share my thoughts. |
'Forever is just a word but for the people who knows how to appreciate that simple word, there will be forever.' |
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John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902), British historian. Letter, April 3, 1887, to Bishop Mandell Creighton. The Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, vol. 1, ch. 13, ed. Louise Creighton (1904). William Pitt the Elder had made a simi |
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man. |
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John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902), British historian. Letter, January 23, 1861. Lord Acton and His Circle, letter 74, ed. Abbot Gasquet (1906). |
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. |
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John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902), British historian. letter, Jan. 23, 1861. Lord Acton and his Circle, letter 74, ed. Abbot Gasquet (1906). |
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. |
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Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham (1778-1868), Scottish Whig politician. Speech, January 29, 1828, to the House of Commons. |
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. |
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Gordon, 1st Baron Of Bury Hewart (1870-1943), British judge. Quoted in King's Bench Reports, vol. 1 (1924). ruling on the quashing of a conviction on technical grounds, Nov. 9, 1923, in Rex v. Sussex Justices. |
Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done. |
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William Norman, 1st Baron Of Ulverston Birkett (1883-1962), British lawyer, Liberal politician. quoted in Observer (London, Oct. 30, 1960). |
I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going. |
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769-1852), British soldier, prime minister. Quoted in Lady Salisbury's Diary, October 26, 1833. |
I hate the whole race.... There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. |
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769-1852), British soldier, prime minister. Dispatch, July 2, 1813, from Vitoria, Spain, to Lord Bathurst, War Minister. Quoted in Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (November 4, 1831). |
We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers. |
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769-1852), British soldier, prime minister. Dispatch, August 1810. Speaking of his generals—though commonly thought to refer to the rank-and-file soldiers. A similar remark is attributed to English Prime Minist |
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me. |
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Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten Of Burma Mountbatten (1900-1979), British admiral, member of Royal Family. Maclean's (Toronto, Nov. 17, 1975). |
If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows. |
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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878), British Whig politician. speech, Sept. 19, 1853, Greenock, Scotland. quoted in Times (London, Sept. 21, 1853). On the growing crisis in the Crimea, which erupted into war the following year. |
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace. |
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Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Falloden (1862-1933), British statesman. remark, Aug. 3, 1914 (eve of Britain's declaration of war against Germany), London. Twenty-Five Years, vol. 2, ch. 18 (1925). |
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. |
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Feb. 26, 1754, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl |
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both. |
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Nov. 7, 1765, Chesterfield's Letters to his Son and Others, p. 289, London, Dent (1796). Written to his godson Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl (1755-1815), a d |
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can. |
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Nov. 7, 1765, Chesterfield's Letters to his Son and Others, p. 290, London, Dent (1796). Written to his godson Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl (1755-1815), a d |
Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world. |
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Oct. 17, 1768, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl |
If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it. |
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Dec. 3, 1734, The French Correspondence of the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, vol. I, p. 150, ed. Rex A. Barrell, trans. James Gray, Ottawa, Borealis Press (1 |
An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty. |
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Oct. 19, 1748, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl |
The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, you are obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishin |
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Nov. 4, 1770, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, |
All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have all the plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase. |
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