George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax PC DL FRSwas an English statesman, writer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660, and in the House of Lords after he was raised to the peerage in 1668...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 November 1633
wise wisdom men
Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.
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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
beauty perfect intellectual
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
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The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.
thinking ideas politician
If politicians would think more they would act less.
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To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.