An American BibleAlice Hubbard The Roycrofters, 1912 - 328 pages A collection of quotations from Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Robert Ingersoll, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Elbert Hubbard |
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Page 117
... mind , and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness , which are not injurious to the natural rights of others . Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of ...
... mind , and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness , which are not injurious to the natural rights of others . Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of ...
Page 196
... mind there can be no true religion . Without liberty the brain is a dungeon - the mind a convict . The slave may bow and cringe and crawl , but he can not adore , he can not love No No True religion is the perfume of a free and grateful ...
... mind there can be no true religion . Without liberty the brain is a dungeon - the mind a convict . The slave may bow and cringe and crawl , but he can not adore , he can not love No No True religion is the perfume of a free and grateful ...
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... mind his remark was certainly true . The men of much motive power are not the best teachers — the arbitrary and imperative type , that would bend all minds to match its own , may build bridges , tunnel mountains , discover continents ...
... mind his remark was certainly true . The men of much motive power are not the best teachers — the arbitrary and imperative type , that would bend all minds to match its own , may build bridges , tunnel mountains , discover continents ...
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