"Power and position often make a man trifle…" — George A. Smith

"Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth."

— George A. Smith

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17 Quotes by George A. Smith

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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience…
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some…
The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.
To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself…
Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties…
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best…
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle

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