Moncure D. Conway Quotes
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Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.
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It is a much easier thing to unloose the demon war than to chain him up again.
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The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer.
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All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice.
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It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.
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If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God. As you save, so shall you be saved.
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War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints in burning villages, dying men, weeping wives and children, and needs to be seen by those who so eagerly clamour for it at every opportunity. The sight of that fearful phantom, girt round with skulls, chains reeking with blood and desolation and ruin in its track, would stop their eagerness for it, unless under real compulsion.
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