If obliged to differ…do I with all possible candor, and an unprejudiced desire to find and ascertain truth, with an entire indifference to the side on which truth is found.
– William Pitt, “General Advice to Youthful Student,” in A Compendium of English Literature, ed. Charles D. Cleveland (Philadelphia: E.C.& J.Biddle, 1851), 642.
If you are not right towards God, you can never be so towards man.
– William Pitt, “General Advice to Youthful Student,” in A Compendium of English Literature, ed. Charles D. Cleveland (Philadelphia: E.C.& J.Biddle, 1851), 642.
“Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth,” is big with the deepest wisdom: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and an upright heart, that is understanding. There is eternally true, whether the wits and rakes of Cambridge allow it or not…
– William Pitt, “General Advice to Youthful Student,” in A Compendium of English Literature, ed. Charles D. Cleveland (Philadelphia: E.C.& J.Biddle, 1851), 643.
Cherish true religion. Remember the essence of religion is, a heart void of offense towards God and man…
– William Pitt, “General Advice to Youthful Student,” in A Compendium of English Literature, ed. Charles D. Cleveland (Philadelphia: E.C.& J.Biddle, 1851), 643.
William Pitt, Earl of Charham, was born this date, 11/15/1708, Westminster, England. He is said to have placated no magnates and to have refused all bribes yet under his influence England became the most powerful country on the globe. The source mentioned above states about Pitt “He never hesitated to rebuke, in severest terms, his own country, when he saw she was in the way of wrong doing.”
The quotes above are from a letter to his nephew penned at Bath, January 14, 1754. Pitt died May 11, 1778, at Hayes, Kent.
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