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Upon Quotes by Benjamin Rush
- The Gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them…
- While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew…
- Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had…
- [W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its…
- Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
- If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect…
- By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has…
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