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William Temple Quotes

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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don’t, they don’t  (William Temple Quotes) True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God  (William Temple Quotes) The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.  (William Temple Quotes) There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.  (William Temple Quotes) The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?  (William Temple Quotes) The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care  (William Temple Quotes) A man must often exercise or fast or take physic, or be sick  (William Temple Quotes) God has given us these opportunities for tranquility  (William Temple Quotes) Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy  (William Temple Quotes) Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both  (William Temple Quotes) The greatest pleasure in life is love  (William Temple Quotes) The greatest medicine is a true friend  (William Temple Quotes) The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home  (William Temple Quotes) No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else  (William Temple Quotes) A man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy  (William Temple Quotes) Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness  (William Temple Quotes) Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new  (William Temple Quotes) The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it  (William Temple Quotes) In conversation, humor is more than wit, easiness more than knowledge; few desire to learn, or think they need it; all desire to be pleased, or, at least, to be easy  (William Temple Quotes) Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because the mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves  (William Temple Quotes) Though I may not be able to inform men more than they know, yet I may give them the occasion to consider  (William Temple Quotes) Sharpness cuts slight things best; solid, nothing cuts through but weight and strength; the same in the use of intellectuals  (William Temple Quotes) Health is the soul that animates all enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless, if not dead, without it  (William Temple Quotes) By luxury we condemn ourselves to greater torments than have yet been invented by anger or revenge, or inflicted by the greatest tyrants upon the worst of men  (William Temple Quotes) O temperance, thou fortune without envy; thou universal medicine of life, that clears the head and cleanses the blood, eases the stomach, strengthens the nerves, and perfects digestion  (William Temple Quotes) The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit  (William Temple Quotes) The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies  (William Temple Quotes) You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill  (William Temple Quotes) Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all  (William Temple Quotes) I am little inclined to practise on others, and as little that they should practise on me  (William Temple Quotes)
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