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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
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The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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Category: Scientist Quotes
Occupation: Educator
Date of Birth: August 13, 1851
Date of Death: April 24, 1933
Nationality: German





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