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One Quotes by John Jay Chapman
- We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.
- Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods…
- The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint.…
- The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows…
- A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these…
- A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men,…
- One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to…
- If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea,…
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