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It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.
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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City of Liverpool
William Gladstone
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W. E. Gladstone
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone
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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 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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It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.
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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
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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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For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
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A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
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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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