If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions. - Beatrice Webb
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.
- Beatrice Webb
Religion is love; in no case is it logic. - Beatrice Webb
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom ha… - Beatrice Webb
The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom ha…
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a… - Beatrice Webb
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a…
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the clev… - Beatrice Webb
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the clev…
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an … - Beatrice Webb
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an …
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell. - Beatrice Webb
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius. - Beatrice Webb
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life. - Beatrice Webb
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
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