My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
BENJAMIN JOWETTWe cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.
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If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
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Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
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It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
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All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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I am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty.
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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Give the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.
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We can’t search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.
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You’ve got to be success minded. You’ve got to feel that things are coming your way when you’re out selling; otherwise, you won’t be able to sell anything.
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It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.
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