Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Quotes

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• To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Lying, World, Height

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• The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Truth, Honesty, World

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• The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Beauty, Honesty, World

  "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, the edition by Philip Ayres, 1999.

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• True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Bullying, Time, Kids

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• It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Self, World, Thinker

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• The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

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  Thinking, Ignorant, Fool

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• The heart is never neutral.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Heart, Neutrality

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• A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

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  Honesty, Mind, Ornaments

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• Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Men, Temper, Whole

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• I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Would Be, Sake, Virtue

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• Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Men, Religion

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• Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.

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  God, Perfectly Good, Remember

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• Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Ridiculous, Ridicule

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• The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

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  Beautiful, Truth, Faces

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• Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Book, Age, World

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• When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Happiness, Men, Easy

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• Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.

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  Mistake, Essence, Doe

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• It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

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  Humor, Sage, Tests

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• If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural justice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout.

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  Religious, Men, Thinking

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• Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Gratitude, Joy, Soul

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• Tis the strumpet's plague
  To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Plague

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• Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind.

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  Heart, Character, Grace

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• The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.

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  Character, Journey, Men

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• Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Passion, Men, May

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• The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Fear, Passion, Order

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