The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
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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.William Temple
Courage is not merely a virtue it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
William Temple
So that a paradise, among them seems to have been a large space of ground adorned and beautified with all sorts of trees, both of fruits and of forest, either found there before it was enclosed, or planted after either cultivated like gardens, for shades and for walks, with fountains or streams, and all sorts of plants usual in the climate, and pleasant to the eye, the smell, or the taste or else employed like our parks, for enclosure and harbor of all sorts of wild beasts, as well, as for the pleasure of riding and walking and so they were of more or less extent, and of different entertainment, according to the several humors of the Princes that ordered and enclosed them.
William Temple
Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions and every one ought to sow them, and leave It to the soil and the seasons whether He or any other gather they fruit
William Temple
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
William Temple
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
William Temple
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