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Letter "W" » Walter Bagehot Quotes
«Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.»
«The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
impose, legality, ties
«The real essence of work is concentrated energy»
«Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
involuntary, irregular, overt, resolutions
«An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.»
«The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.»
«An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| Keywords:
characteristics, influential, labour, Member of Parliament
«No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.»
«I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.»
«Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.»
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