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John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury
We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.
Character | Forethought | Heart |
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morely of Blackburn, Lord Morley
A sudden lie may be sometimes only manslaughter upon truth; but by a carefully constructed equivocation, truth always is with malice a forethought deliberately murdered.
Equivocation | Forethought | Malice | Truth | Wisdom |
To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.
Forethought | Little |
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.
Father | Forethought | Honor | Purpose | Purpose | Regard | Will | Child |
The people didn't really want to be saints of self-deprivation and hatred of the world. They knew that the world would sooner or later deprive them of all it had given them, but still they liked it.
Beauty | Despair | Fear | Forethought | Grace | Life | Life | Peace | Rest | Sound | Time | Waiting | World | Beauty |
I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Forethought | Grace | Peace | Rest | Time |