"The essential elements of giving are power and……" — Mark Hopkins
"The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other."
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11 Quotes by Mark Hopkins
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Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by…
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But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either…
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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
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Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
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Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
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Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
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Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and…
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Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to…
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We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered…
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No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the…
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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