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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone
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William E. Gladstone
Age: 88 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1898
Died: May 19
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
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From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
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I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
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Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
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My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.
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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
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I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.
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I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
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The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
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