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- I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined…
- The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to…
- Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
- If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,…
- The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
- Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
- Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
- Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental…
- A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body,…
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to…
- Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
- I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
- Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every…
- The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
- I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of…
- Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people…
- Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
- Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
- On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
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