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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now
He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
