Beautiful Counterfeit Quotes by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power,…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury