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 TROLLOPEThe 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.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife’s hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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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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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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A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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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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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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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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When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
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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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The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.
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