Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required in our several circumstances.
-- Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

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The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.
-- Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

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Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.
-- Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.
We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax famous quotes

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