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Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.”
-- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

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“More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.”
-- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

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“There is a noble and a base side to every history.”
-- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

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“Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.”
“According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.”
“All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.”
“In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.”
“â€¦words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anewâ€¦.”
“One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.”
“The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.”
“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.”
“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”
“Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.”

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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