I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.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.
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Reacting to evangelists' fondness for quoting Isaiah 118, 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow....' All my sins are grey.
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Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
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Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor where there is more sense than wit more good nature than good humor and more wealth than pleasure where a man would choose rather to travel than t
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Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process. The Malvern Manifesto Drawn up by a Conference of the Province of York, January 10, 1941 signed for the Conference by Temple, then Archbishop of York (later Archbishop of Canterbury).
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