Quote by Gilbert Murray
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. – Gilbert Murray

Other quotes by Gilbert Murray

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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Poetry
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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. – Gilbert Murray

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Imagination
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Happiness
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. – George Sand

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Happiness

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. – Diego Val

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Happiness

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. – William Beveridge

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Happiness

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. – Ausonius

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Happiness

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Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. Thats but a hint of what well feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally – and permanently – be at home in a way that defies description. – Charles Stanley

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Home

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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respect