"No one ever was a great poet, that……" — William Temple
"No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else."
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27 Quotes by William Temple
William Temple has 27 quotes on this site.
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for…
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
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People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.
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Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
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We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God;…
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Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a…
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The greatest pleasure in life is love.
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I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about…
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Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.
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The greatest medicine is a true friend.
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There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth…
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The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what…
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More Anything Else Quotes
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else…
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you…
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
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You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of…
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I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
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Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
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