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“È un errore pensare che Dio è solo, o principalmente, materia di religione.”

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“I libri, come i proverbi, ricevono il loro valore principale dall'impronta e dalla stima delle epoche attraverso le quali sono passati.”

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“Non è la tigre, né la scimmia che temo nell'uomo, ma il gorilla.”

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William Temple: Frasi in inglese

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

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Miscellanea (1690), Part II, "Upon the Ancient and Modern Learning".

“All the precepts of Christianity agree to teach and command us to moderate our passions, to temper our affections towards all things below; to be thankful for the possession, and patient under the loss whenever he that gave it shall see fit to take away.”

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"To the Countess of Essex, Upon Her Grief occasioned by the loss of Her only Daughter" (29 January 1674), in Miscellanea (4th ed. pub. 1705), p. 172.
Variante: "Christianity teaches us to moderate our passions; to temper our affections toward all things below; to be thankful for the possession, and patient under loss, whenever He who gave shall see fit to take away." Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 140.