"A nation may be born in a day,……" — David Josiah Brewer
"A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day."
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David Josiah Brewer
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13 Quotes by David Josiah Brewer
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Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates…
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Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury…
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The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable…
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The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything…
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Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to…
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I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss…
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It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place…
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What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Catholic Church? What one, through hospital and asylum, more…
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Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated…
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He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop…
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The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good…
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It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as…
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I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and…
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of…
— Diane Ackerman
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
— Francis Bacon
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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
— Amy Adams
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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