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Sir William Temple - From the Ability category:
- Miscellanea, 1705...
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or other, like too scanty a blanket. If you pull it upon your shoulders, you leave your feet bare; if you thrust it down upon your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Achievement category:
What great thing soever a man proposed to do in his life, he should think of achieving it by fifty. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Authority category:
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. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Belief category:
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Books category:
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Books category:
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Children category:
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Communication category:
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Complaining category:
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. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Consideration category:
Though I may not be able to inform men more than they know, yet I may give them the occasion to consider. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Critics category:
They do but trace over the paths that have been beaten by the ancients; or comment, critic, and flourish upon them. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Drunkenness category:
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Friendship category:
Something like home that is not home is to be desired: it is found in the house of a friend. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Goodness category:
In this world whatever is called good is comparatively with other things of its kind, or with the evil mingled in its composition: so he is a good man that is better than men comparatively are, or in whom the good qualities are more than the bad. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Health category:
It seems necessary in the choice of persons for greater employments to consider their bodies as well as their minds, and ages and health as well as their abilities. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Language category:
'Tis obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country, and how great a difference this must make in the excellence of books. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Life category:
We bring into the world with us a poor, needy, uncertain life, short at the longest and unquiet at the best. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Peace category:
What is called by the poets apathy or dispassion, by the sceptics indisturbance, by the Molinists quietism, by common men peace of conscience, seems all to mean but great tranquillity of mind. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Philosophy category:
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. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Poetry category:
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Politics category:
The government which takes in the consent of the greatest number of the people may justly be said to have the broadest bottom; and if it be terminated in the authority of one single person, it may be said to have the narrowest top; and so makes the firmest pyramid. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Prayer category:
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Relaxation category:
The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Religion category:
It is a mistake to assume that God is interested only, or even chiefly, in religion. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Success category:
The bold and sufficient pursue their game with more passion, endeavour, and application, and therefore often succeed. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Thought category:
Man is a thinking being, whether he will or no: all he can do is to turn his thoughts the best way. (Sir William Temple)
Sir William Temple - From the Wisdom category:
Man's wisdom is his best friend. (Sir William Temple)
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