Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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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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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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For there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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