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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
William Temple
Value
,
Books
,
Through
,
Stamp
,
Like
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
William Temple
Friend
,
Wisdom
,
Man
,
Best
,
Best Friend
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.
William Temple
Time
,
Purpose
,
Believe
,
Present
,
Wish
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
William Temple
Live
,
Fitness
,
Man
,
Rich
,
Exercise
,
Way
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
William Temple
New
,
Will
,
Hard
,
Books
,
Old
,
Who
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
William Temple
Good
,
Truth
,
Humor
,
Conversation
,
First
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
William Temple
Education
,
Home
,
Child
,
Conversation
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
William Temple
Good
,
Myself
,
Humor
,
Friends
,
Glass
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.
William Temple
Live
,
Man
,
Unhappy
,
Old Man
,
Others
,
Old
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.
William Temple
Life
,
Best
,
Child
,
Care
,
Done
,
Quiet
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
William Temple
Great
,
Poet
,
Anything
,
Much
,
Else
,
Ever
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
William Temple
Happen
,
Pray
,
Coincidences
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 distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
William Temple
Alone
,
Man
,
Best
,
Value
,
Rules
,
Young
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?
William Temple
God
,
Evil
,
Problem
,
Create
,
Creation
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.
William Temple
Man
,
Men
,
Authority
,
Nothing
,
Always
,
Up
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.
William Temple
Purpose
,
World
,
Philosophy
,
Enthusiasm
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
William Temple
Beauty
,
Health
,
Yourself
,
You
,
Stay
,
May
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