“ Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. ”
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“ Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. ”
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“ Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. ”
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“ Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. ”
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“ Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. ”
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“ The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ”
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“ In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life. ”
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“ Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. ”
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“ The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. ”
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“ Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. ”
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“ The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist. ”
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“ In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life. ”
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“ America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. ”
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“ We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having. ”
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“ The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness in which it is held. ”
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“ The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness in which it is held. ”
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“ Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. ”
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“ We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started. ”
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“ Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans. ”
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“ Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled. ”
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“ We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started. ”
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“ Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. ”
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“ The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness in which it is held. ”
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“ America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. ”
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“ Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. ”
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“ Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. ”
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“ Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. ”
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