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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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.
William Gurnall
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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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