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Shaftesbury, Lord quotes

1671-1713 British Statesman


True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
Shaftesbury, Lord
Courage

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
Shaftesbury, Lord
Humor

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
Shaftesbury, Lord
Truth

The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.
Shaftesbury, Lord
Prejudice