William Temple

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. ↗

— William Temple

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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't. ↗

— William Temple

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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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Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. ↗

— William Temple

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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

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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. ↗

— William Temple

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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

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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. ↗

— William Temple

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ↗

— William Temple

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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. ↗

— William Temple

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