- Attaching
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
- Enlisted
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- Nov 07, 2020
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
- Curiously
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
- Errors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has been adjudged a social animal.
- Consequent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
- Deduce
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
- Opinions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
- Horizon
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- Nov 07, 2020