Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.
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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
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
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
William Temple
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, and to devote the will to the purpose of God.
William Temple
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
William Temple
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
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