"The better life rests less on the prohibitions……" — David Josiah Brewer
"The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule."
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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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A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of…
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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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