Quote by Thomas Macaulay
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. – Thomas Macaulay

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay

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Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. – Georg Groddeck, The Book of the It, 1950

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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

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They are not all saints who use holy water. – English Proverb

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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. – John Milton

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