It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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