“No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.”
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“No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.”
“Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothers”
“Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him”
“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.”
“Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him”
“Conscience is an oracle of the divinity”
“There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom”
“The less of government the better, if society were kept in peace and prosperity.”
“Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth”
“I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being”
“To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life”
“Christianity is not only confirmed by miracles, but is in itself, in its very essence, a miraculous religion”
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict”
“Error is discipline through which we advance”
“All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly”
“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost”
“The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.”
“Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power”
“Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life”
“The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own souls”