"It is the duty and high privilege of……" — Joseph P. Bradley
"It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth."
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Joseph P. Bradley
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13 Quotes by Joseph P. Bradley
Joseph P. Bradley has 13 quotes on this site.
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When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he…
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The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That…
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Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of…
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As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest…
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All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can…
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Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and…
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I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment…
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Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men…
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A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are…
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The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are…
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In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding;…
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The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest…
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More Actions Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
— Red Auerbach
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
— Teresa of Avila
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
— Abigail Adams
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
— Abu Bakr
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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