No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
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Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.William Temple
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
William Temple
Courage is not merely a virtue it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
William Temple
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?
William Temple
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.
William Temple
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