“Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.” MenMayCertainPassionCircumstancesMiserableFortunateTemper Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.” WorldMayBookAgeAbleTaughtWeightSuitsCarrieBigotryTemperPedantry Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.” WellsKindMayAblePoetJudgingGoodnessEarsNotionExcellentPoeticVeinsPossessingTolerable Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
