I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.


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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the so...
EDMUND WALLER
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSER
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received ...
EDMUND SPENSER
Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
EDMUND SPENSER
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
EDMUND SPENSER
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
EDMUND SPENSER
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSER
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by ...
EDMUND SPENSER
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSER
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER
I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing...
EDMUND PHELPS
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging outpu...
EDMUND PHELPS
Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid...
EDMUND PHELPS
The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and ...
EDMUND PHELPS
In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism...
EDMUND PHELPS
I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next ...
EDMUND PHELPS
The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work,...
EDMUND PHELPS
The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up...
EDMUND PHELPS
What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but ...
EDMUND PHELPS
Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the cl...
EDMUND PHELPS
In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a compara...
EDMUND PHELPS
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an ...
EDMUND PHELPS
I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
EDMUND PHELPS
I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are ...
EDMUND PHELPS
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are...
EDMUND PHELPS
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare stat...
EDMUND PHELPS
Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies ...
EDMUND PHELPS
Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that ...
EDMUND PHELPS
When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and fina...
EDMUND PHELPS
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t...
EDMUND PHELPS
Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their con...
EDMUND PHELPS
Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
EDMUND PHELPS
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constituti...
EDMUND MORGAN
The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particu...
EDMUND MORGAN