E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Quotes

• True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Positive, Meaningful, Humility

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• Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

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  Wise, Men, Views

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• Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

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  Life, Way, Good Company

  "Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections" by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, 1750.

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• The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

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  Winning, Argument, Contention

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• I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

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  Education, Thinking, Oxford

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• The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

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  Past, May, Way

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• Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

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  Inspirational, Gratitude, Men

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• If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

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  Funny, Law, Complaining

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• The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

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  Beauty, Lust, Dresses

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• A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

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  Fool, Firsts, Dialogue

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• If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

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  Men, Liberty, World

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• A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

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  Men, Names, Enemy

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• Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

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  World, Satisfaction, Spiteful

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• Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

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  Gratitude, Gratitude And Appreciation

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• Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

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  Men, Thinking, Debt

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• A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

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  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

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  Business, Men, Lasts

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• The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

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  Names, Numbers, Speak

  "The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter". Book by George Savile, 1688.

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• The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

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  Spiritual, Society, World

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• Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

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  Anger, Men, Two

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• In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

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  Perfect, Weakness, Philosopher

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• Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

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  Friendship, Civility, Ceremony

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• Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

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  Party, Ignorance, Men

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• There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

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  Men, Numbers, Cruelty

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• Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

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  Freedom, Liberty, Term

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