Joseph P. Bradley Quotes

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• When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere…
• The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the…
• Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.
• As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should…
• All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else…
• Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is,…
• I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and…
• Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse natures are mostly…
• It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for…
• A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus…
• The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting…
• In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason…
• The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at…

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