Quotes from authors born in 1555
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
Johann Arndt
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
Johann Arndt
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
William Temple
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
William Temple
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
William Temple
Cathy McMorris 
Pat Nixon 
B. F. Skinner 
Larry Summers 
Brad Carson 
Seth Green 
Richard Price 
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