William Temple
William Temple
William Temple quotes about
mean humility thinking-about-you
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
friendship true-friend medicine
The greatest medicine is a true friend.
heart self worship-music
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.
inspirational men littles
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.
glasses enemy firsts
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
next ingredients firsts
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
health exercise men
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
american-author care falls human life played quiet till
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.
american-author beauty destroy discourage unless using
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
american-author great
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
american-author bred easily man men
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.
ages american-author chief esteem stamp
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
american-author case create creation god permission permit problem
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?
american-author best folly wisdom worst
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.