William Temple Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
• 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…
• Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
• When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

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