William Temple
William Temple
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Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.
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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.
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
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Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
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Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
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Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It to the soil and the seasons whether He or any other gather they fruit
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Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.
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I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.
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There cannot live an unhappier creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others