William Temple Quotes

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. - William Temple

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

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

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. - 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 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

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

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

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

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