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1. "Coincidentele sunt mai frecvente atunci când ne rugam." ~ William Temple
2. "Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself one way or the other at all. . . . The humility which consists in being a great deal occupied about yourself, and saying you are of little worth, is not Christian humility. It is one form of self-occupation and a very poor and futile one at that." ~ William Temple
3. "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
4. "The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies." ~ William Temple
5. "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
6. "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
7. "Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed." ~ William Temple
8. "No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else." ~ William Temple
9. "Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new." ~ William Temple
10. "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
11. "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
12. "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
13. "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." ~ William Temple
14. "When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't." ~ William Temple
15. "The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit." ~ William Temple
16. "Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy." ~ William Temple
17. "The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor." ~ William Temple
18. "To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God." ~ William Temple

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Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it."
Author: C.S. Lewis

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