Phrase by 'William Temple'

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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Author: William Temple - English
  Man , Way , Rich , Fitness


The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Author: William Temple - English
  Humor , Good , Truth , Conversation


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.

Author: William Temple - English
  Live , Man , Unhappy , Old Man


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.

Author: William Temple - English
  Time , Wish , Believe , Fall


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.

Author: William Temple - English
  World , Purpose , Philosophy , Enthusiasm


Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Author: William Temple - English
  New , Will , Old , Hard


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.

Author: William Temple - English
  Value , Best , Man , Alone


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?

Author: William Temple - English
  God , Evil , Problem , Creation


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

Author: William Temple - English


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

Author: William Temple - English
  Value , Like , Books , Through


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