Quotes by William Temple

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor,...

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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good...

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Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more...

#Humor

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

#William Temple

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like...

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither...

#William Temple

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in...

#William Temple

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much,...

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Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and...

#William Temple

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

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Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

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I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity,...

#William Temple