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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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.William Temple
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.
William Temple
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 first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
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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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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
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