William Temple
William Temple
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benefit church earth exists religion society
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
courage merely
Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
choose earth good holland man nature profit rather request travel wealth
Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t
done evolution creation
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.
science perpetual restlessness
Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.
american-author conversation factors
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
air american-author arrows complaints critical destroy fall heads hovering inability indeed present shot time
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
american-author hard
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
alchemy american-author enthusiasm looked troubled
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
american-author cannot creature neither nor receiving sensible
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.
american-author best folly wisdom worst
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
american-author case create creation god permission permit problem
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?
ages american-author chief esteem stamp
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
american-author bred easily man men
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.