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All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Richard Cecil
Lying, Errors, Reverse

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

Richard Cecil
Lying, Men, Gold
Richard Cecil (1825). “The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character”, p.250

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

Richard Cecil
Running, Lying, Men
Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.177

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