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Richard Cecil [1748-1810] English

Rank: 106
Clergyman

Richard Cecil was a leading Evangelical Anglican priest of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Quote	Tags	Rank
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.	Knowledge	101
If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.	Time	102
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.	Beauty	103
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.	Experience, Hope, Patience	104
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.		105
There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.		106
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.	Wisdom	107
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.		108
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.		109

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