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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. ↗

— William Temple

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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

#capable #creature #live #man #more

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

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Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully. ↗

— Charles Templeton

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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. ↗

— John Templeton

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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. ↗

— John Templeton

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A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then. ↗

— John Templeton

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I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts. ↗

— John Templeton

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It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. ↗

— John Templeton

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The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit. ↗

— John Templeton

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