William Robertson
William Robertson
New York-born politician who served as a Republican representative to the U.S. Congress from 1867 to 1869.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 October 1823
CityBedford, NY
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Every social act had a reference to the gods as well as to men, for the social body was not made up of men only, but of gods and men.
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Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.
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But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
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It's got to hurt, doesn't it. It's got to dent his chance of being leader.
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While scientists can't always visit classrooms, they can provide us with an hour of their time to interact with a classroom,
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It is a concern for us. We are at the very early stage of an intervention that could last three or four months.
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Physicians are at special risk of abusing their authority and intimate access to others,
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By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.
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To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
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... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.
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To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.
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A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
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If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.
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To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.