Special Dictionary / Quotations / Sir William Temple
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16 Quotations of Sir William Temple.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ...2.
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your se ...3.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disapp ...4.
No one ever was a great poet that applied himself much to anythin ...5.
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the ...6.
People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, ...7.
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a ...8.
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflec ...9.
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflec ...10.
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good hum ...11.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third go ...12.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live ...13.
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is ne ...14.
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a frowar ...15.
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they ...16.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among t ...