William Temple Quotes

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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.
• The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
• People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.
• Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
• We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by…
• Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for…
• The greatest pleasure in life is love.
• 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…
• Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.
• The greatest medicine is a true friend.
• There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth since all systems can be…
• 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…
• A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.
• The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
• Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
• 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…
• 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…
• No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
• 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…
• 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…

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