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Informationen über William Ewart Gladstone

Politiker, Premierminister von 1868 - 1874 und 1880 - 1885 (England, 1809 - 1898).

William Ewart Gladstone · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

William Ewart Gladstone wäre heute 214 Jahre, 9 Monate, 11 Tage oder 78.448 Tage alt.

Geboren am 29.12.1809
Gestorben am 19.05.1898
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

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• Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.

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• Our first site in Egypt, be it by larceny or be it by emption, will be the almost certain egg of a North African Empire.

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• The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious appetite.

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• The resources of civilization against its enemies are not yet exhausted.

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• The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

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• To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right.

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• To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does, but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.

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• We have been borne down in a torrent of gin and beer.

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• You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

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