Thomas Creech quotes

“To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.”
-- Thomas Creech

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 9), 1922.

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“He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.”
-- Thomas Creech

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“For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.”
-- Thomas Creech

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“They that do much themselves deny, Receive more blessings from the sky.”
-- Thomas Creech

Source : Horace, Thomas Creech (1715). “The Odes: Satires, and Epistles of Horace. Done Into English by Mr. Creech”, p.95

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“What studies please, what most delight, And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.”
-- Thomas Creech

Source : Titus Lucretius Carus, Thomas Creech (1714). “Of the nature of things: in six books”, p.389

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“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”

“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.”

“Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.”

Source : "On the God of Socrates". Ch. 4,

“I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.”

Source : E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.209, Cornell University Press

“We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.”

“EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.”

“There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.”

“I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.”