Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
BENJAMIN JOWETTPrecautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
BENJAMIN JOWETTYoung men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
BENJAMIN JOWETTI am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
BENJAMIN JOWETTAll translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
BENJAMIN JOWETTThe way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
BENJAMIN JOWETTWe can’t search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.
BENJAMIN JOWETTTo teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
BENJAMIN JOWETTIt is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
BENJAMIN JOWETTYou’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.
BENJAMIN JOWETTThere is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
BENJAMIN JOWETTIt 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.
BENJAMIN JOWETTJowett, 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.
BENJAMIN JOWETTGive the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.
BENJAMIN JOWETTMy dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
BENJAMIN JOWETTResearch ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
BENJAMIN JOWETTOne man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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