Quote#Education
All the precepts of Christianity agree to teach and command us to…
Quote bySir William Temple, 1st Baronet · 1628–1699
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "To the Countess of Essex, Upon Her Grief occasioned by the loss of Her only Daughter" (29 January 1674), in Miscellanea (4th ed. pub. 1705), p. 172..
English (original)
All the precepts of Christianity agree to teach and command us to moderate our passions, to temper our affections towards all things below; to be thankful for the possession, and patient under the loss whenever he that gave it shall see fit to take away.
— Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet
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