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 TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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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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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Of Dickens’ style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules…
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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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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