Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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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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What is there that money will not do?
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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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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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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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A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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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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Beware of creating tedium!
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