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There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut

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William E. Gladstone
Age: 88 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1898
Died: May 19
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Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!
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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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The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
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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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[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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To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
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Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
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Be thorough in all you do and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
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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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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.
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Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
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Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
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