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William Temple Quotes

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Education Home Child Conversation

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

Good Truth Humor Conversation Wit

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

Time Purpose Believe Present Wish

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

Happen Pray Coincidences

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

New Will Old Hard Books Who

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.

Life Best Child Care Quiet Done

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Live Fitness Man Rich Exercise Way

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Good Myself Humor Friends Glass

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Live Man Unhappy Old Man Others Old

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

Great Anything Poet Much Himself

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.

Alone Best Man Value Opinions Rules

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?

God Evil Problem Create Creation

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