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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge." -
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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Top 5 quotes from Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one."
"The more one works, the more willing one is to work."
"Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones."
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"Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds."
"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery."
"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
"Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. "
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