"Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness;……" — John Jay Chapman
"Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation."
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43 Quotes by John Jay Chapman
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- People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a…
- Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
- Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
- Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the…
- People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog.…
- All progress is experimental.
- A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio…
- The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
- Too much agreement kills the chat.
- Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action…
- It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
- Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar…
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