Lord Shaftesbury
Lord Shaftesbury
Earl of Shaftesbury is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1672 for Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley, a prominent politician in the Cabal then dominating the policies of King Charles II. He had already succeeded his father as second Baronet of Rockbourne in 1631 and been created Baron Ashley, of Wimborne St Giles in the County of Dorset, in 1661, and he was made Baron Cooper, of Paulett in the County of Somerset, at the...
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If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural justice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout.
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Tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.
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To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.
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Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.
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Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.
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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.