"We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended." — Felix Adler
"We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended."
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Felix Adler
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30 Quotes by Felix Adler
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning,…
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of…
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the…
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you…
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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More Enjoyments Quotes
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
— C.S. Lewis
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It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest…
— Joseph Addison
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
— Seneca the Younger
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It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has…
— William Hazlitt
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O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born…
— William Cowper
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Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of…
— Robert G. Allen
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The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and…
— John Maynard Keynes
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