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Robert Hall
English
Clergyman
About the author
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
Robert Hall,
English
Clergyman
#Understanding
#Wisdom
Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.
Robert Hall,
English
Clergyman
#Burden
#Care
#Health
#Economy
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
Robert Hall,
English
Clergyman
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
Robert Hall,
English
Clergyman
#History
#Attention
#Unity
#Literary
#Biography
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Robert Hall,
English
Clergyman
#First
#Conscience
#Thoughts
#Prudence
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
Robert Hall,
English
Clergyman
#Authority
#Custom
#Mankind
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
Robert Hall,
English
Clergyman
#Power
#Attention
#Lies
#Habits
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Robert Hall,
English
Clergyman
#Right
#Name
#Fire
#Names
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall,
English
Clergyman
#Friend
#Understanding
#Virtue
#Value
#Opinion
#Sincerity