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

By Sir William Temple

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

By Sir William Temple

God has given us these opportunities for tranquility.

By Sir William Temple

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

By Sir 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.

By Sir William Temple

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

By Sir William Temple

Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process.

By Sir William Temple