Gilbert Burnet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.
-- Gilbert Burnet

#Return #Overcoming #Amusement
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion." To the inquiry of "What religion?" the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."
-- Gilbert Burnet

#Men #People #Anecdotes
The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true: the King (he said) could see things if he would, and the Duke would see things if he could.
-- Gilbert Burnet

#Brother #Kings #Character
One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider's web, was... irrecoverably broken at a touch.
-- Gilbert Burnet

#Strong #Kings #Powerful
The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.
-- Gilbert Burnet

#Law #England #Grievance
Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations we are eternally happy.
-- Gilbert Burnet

#Passion #Expectations #Succeed
There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he cannot think; he saunters about from one dull business to another, to wear out time; and hath no reason to value Life but because he is afraid of death.
-- Gilbert Burnet

#Running #Men #Thinking
. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.
-- Gilbert Burnet

#Knowing #Worst

To Allah we belong and to Him is our return.
Trust God in the dark until the light returns.
You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.
We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.
In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par deÂ sespoir, puisque, tout bien veÂ rifieÂ , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

Gilbert Burnet famous quotes

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