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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
Morley, John
Business

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
Morley, John
Complacency

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
Morley, John
Evolution

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
Morley, John
Literature

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
Morley, John
Politicians and Politics

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
Morley, John
Opinions

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John
Proverbs

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
Morley, John
Aphorisms and Epigrams

He who hates vice hates men.
Morley, John
Vice