16 Quotations by Sir William Temple
- 1. Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which ...
- 2. If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may n ...
- 3. Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
- 4. No one ever was a great poet that applied himself much to anything else.
- 5. Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inabi ...
- 6. People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.
- 7. The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ar ...
- 8. The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what ha ...
- 9. The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what ha ...
- 10. The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth fo ...
- 11. The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fo ...
- 12. The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
- 13. There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of rec ...
- 14. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b ...
- 15. When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
- 16. Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
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