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Benjamin Jowett

Benjamin Jowett (/ˈdʒoʊɪt/, modern variant /ˈdʒaʊɪt/; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford.

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

Character, Deal, Hard, Lying, Truth, World

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

Individualized, Kindness, Learning, Peace, Specific

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

Afternoon, College, Five, God, Leave, Scary

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

Denied, Doors, Doubt, Inquiry, Inspirational

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

Precautions, Said, Successful, Unnecessary

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

Compromise, Effort, Language, Literal, Translation

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

Business, Credit, Done, Life, Mind, Positive

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.

Educational, May, Men, Perhaps, Service, Teach

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.

Almighty, Energy, Grace, Human, Real

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

Action, Concrete, Justice, Kindness, Search, Wealth

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.

Able, Selling, Success, Things, Way

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

Blaming, Future, God, Past, Peace, Want

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

Life, Mistake, Men, Idealize, Mistakes

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.

Men, Air, Oxford, Place, Let, Day