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> [As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of toil. It ensures the necessary vacation in those earthly and turbulent anxieties and affections, which would otherwise become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dabney/as-a-moral-and-social-institution-a-weekly-rest-is-invaluable-it-is-a/)

[Robert Dabney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dabney/)

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## More by Robert Dabney

> [Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dabney/every-line-of-true-knowledge-must-find-its-completeness-as-it/)

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> [I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dabney/i-desire-before-i-leave-the-world-as-my-best-legacy-to-my-family-my/)

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> [I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be fought over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dabney/i-predict-that-the-time-will-come-in-this-once-free-america-when-the/)

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> [It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dabney/it-is-the-teaching-of-the-bible-and-of-sound-political-ethics-that/)

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> [As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of toil. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dabney/as-a-moral-and-social-institution-a-weekly-rest-is-invaluable-it-is-a/)

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> [There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dabney/there-can-be-therefore-no-true-education-without-moral-culture-and-no/)

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> [The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dabney/the-instructor-has-to-teach-history-cosmogony-psychology-ethics-the/)

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