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.
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?
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.
american-author great
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
american-author beauty destroy discourage unless using
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
american-author care falls human life played quiet till
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.