How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?
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Create Personalise WishesNature will bear the closest…
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
10We must learn to reawaken…
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
12The youth gets together…
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
11The scientist who yields…
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
17A national political campaign…
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
15Philosophy consists very…
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
15To be in love is merely…
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia — to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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In this world of sin and…
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
16In the United States,…
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
15As democracy is perfected,…
As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
16Democracy is only a dream:…
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
16The older I grow the more…
Truth is generally the…
How many legs does a dog…
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
17The United States government…
The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an inidual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.
18Friends, I agree with…
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. 1854
38That I am not a member…
That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
18Public sentiment is everything….
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute.
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Neither anticipated that…
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease
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