Blasphemy Quote by Samuel Hopkins Adams

“A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.”

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The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

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Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the…

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The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

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Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

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Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

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I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.

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Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

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You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

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I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something…

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With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

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Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than…

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Now a doll found naked in a ditch eyes rusted open, is blasphemy.

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