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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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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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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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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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