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~ John Morley Quotes ~
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John Morley Quotes


A British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor.
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923) was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1886 and between 1892 and 1895, Secretary of State for India between 1905 and 1910 and again in 1911 and Lord President of the Council between 1910 and 1914. Apart from his political career, Morley was a distinguished writer and political theorist. One of the original members of the Order of Merit founded in 1902, he was ennobled as Viscount Morley of Blackburn in 1908. 

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He who hates vice hates men.

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You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

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No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

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Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

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

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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.

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It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.

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Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.