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• The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Bible, Simple, Years

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• There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Yesterday, World, Given

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1899). “The Map of Life: Conduct and Character”

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• Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Passion, Age, Tasks

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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• La incansable, poco ostentosa y poco gloriosa cruzada de Inglaterra contra la esclavitud puede considerarse probablemente como una de las tres o cuatro páginas perfectamente virtuosas que comprende la historia de las naciones.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  History, Three, Slavery

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1975). “History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”, Ayer Company Pub

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• El período de ascendencia católica fue en conjunto uno de los más deplorables en la historia de la mente humana. . . . El espíritu que rechaza la investigación como algo pecaminoso y considera que un estado de duda es un estado de culpa, es la enfermedad más duradera que puede afligir la mente del hombre. El renacimiento intelectual de Europa no comenzó hasta que la educación pasó de los monasterios a las universidades, hasta que la ciencia mahometana, el libre pensamiento clásico y la independencia industrial rompieron el cetro de la Iglesia.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Europe, Catholic

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• One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Vida, Motivación, Carácter

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• Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Happiness, Men, Long

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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• Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Anxiety, Scylla, Bark

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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• Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Father, Writing, Atheism

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• The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Religious, Evil, Atrocities

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• There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Christian, Beast, Wild Beasts

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (2001). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.39, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Religion, Proportion, Catholicism

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• When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic fallibility of their reason, and the degree in which it is distorted by the will, when, above all, they have acquired that love of truth which a constant appeal to private judgment at last produces, they will never dream that guilt can be associated with an honest conclusion, or that one class of arguments should be stifled by authority.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Dream, Exercise, Men

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.72

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• Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on another burdens which it is not asked to share, and impels the State into vast schemes of extravagance, under the belief that the whole costs will be thrown upon others.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Class, Creating, Democracy

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• Whence has come thy lasting power.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Duradero

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1891). “Poems”

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• Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Average, Abortion, Feminist

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1869). “History of European morals: from Augustus to Charlemagne. II”, p.23

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• El deber moral que cabe esperar en las diferentes épocas no es una unidad de norma, o de actos, sino una unidad de tendencia... En un momento dado, los afectos benevolentes abarcan únicamente a la familia; pronto, el círculo se amplía e incluye primero a una clase, luego a una nación, después a una coalición de naciones, más tarde a toda la humanidad y, finalmente, su influencia se deja sentir en el trato del hombre con el mundo animal.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Animal, Law

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• When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated; and, in the course of a few years, restrictive laws were enacted, both against the Jews and against the heretics.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Years, Law, Atheism

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.29

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• It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment of perpetual peace. In looking back, with our present experience, we are driven to the melancholy conclusion that, instead of diminishing the number of wars, ecclesiastical influence has actually and very seriously increased it.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Cristiano, Religioso, Guerra

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• The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Intellectual, Religion, Essentials

  "History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne".

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• The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and men afterwards make it the model upon which their theories are framed.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Firsts, Opinion

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1809). “History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”, p.158

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• La doctrina de un infierno material tenía por efecto enfriar y amortiguar las simpatías, predisponer a los hombres a infligir sufrimientos y retardar la marcha de la civilización.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Civilization, Suffering

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• Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Innocent, Pleasure, Pursuit

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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• There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Vices, Virtue, Periods

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1955). “History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”

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• There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Perspective, Lines, Duty

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