Richard Cecil

Clergyman

1748-11-08

Quotes by Richard Cecil

• Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

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• Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

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• The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

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