Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

#Happiness #Men #Easy
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
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.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

#Character #Men #Thinking
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

#Humor #Sage #Tests
The heart is never neutral.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

#Heart #Neutrality
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
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
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
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 #Men #Calm
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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