Courage is not merely a virtue it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
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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
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Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
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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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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
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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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