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Quote by Robert B. Leighton

“We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.”

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Robert B. Leighton was a renowned physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and nuclear physics. His work at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) had a profound impact on the development of particle accelerators. more

“Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.”

Men Mind Passion Doubt Pride Madness Anger Intention Folly Affected Mischief

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“Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.”

Men Easy Quiet Fairs Anger Angry Storm Weather Welcome Lightning Thunder Tempest Ungrateful Thunder And Lightning

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.”

Men Country Grows Degrees Court Fortune Climate Envy Rage Soil Breasts Weed Confined

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.”

Ifs Wells Reason Grows Easy Depends Built Blow Credit Envy Firm Jealous Calumny

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.”

Mother Friendship Skills Observation Nurse Tenderness Physicians Diligence Vigilance Best Mother

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.”

Ifs Pain Human Nature Expenses

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.”

Men Should Beautiful Asks Answers Beauty Objects Sight Blind Maps Delighted Blind Man Beautiful Objects

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.”

Men Want Needs Should War Seems Humanity Cases Horrible Divinity Volunteer

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

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