William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Quotes
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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Love wins when everything else will fail.
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If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?
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I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.
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Arguments are too much like disputes.
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
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Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more.
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Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
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Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.
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An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
