The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEBeware of creating tedium!
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.
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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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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
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I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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