Benjamin Jowett Quotes

• The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Life, Positive, Business

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• Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Life, Beautiful, Work

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• Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Inspirational, Doors, Doubt

  Frederick Temple, Rowland Williams, Baden Powell, Henry Bristow Wilson, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (2013). “Essays and Reviews”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

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• To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Educational, Men, May

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• There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Truth, Lying, Character

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• Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.

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  Real, Grace, Energy

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• Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Giving, Clergy

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• Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Successful, Unnecessary, Said

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• It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

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  Important, World, Pushing

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• One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Book, Reading, Men

  In Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell (eds.) 'The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett' (1897) vol. 1, p. 248

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• You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Able, Way, Selling

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• We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

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  Peace, Kindness, Learning

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• Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Science, Achievement, Experience

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• All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Effort, Language, Compromise

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• Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

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  Life, Mistake, Men

  Benjamin Jowett (1899). “Letters of Benjamin Jowett”

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• I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Peace, Past, Want

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• My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

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  Children, Believe, Dear God

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• If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

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  College, Scary, Afternoon

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• Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

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  Feelings, Taste, Inscriptions

  Benjamin Jowett (1899). “Letters of Benjamin Jowett”

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• We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

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  Kindness, Justice, Action

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• Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Plato, Play, Bears

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• Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Men, Air, Oxford

  "Asquith". Book by Roy Jenkins, p. 22, 1964.

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