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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He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.
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It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that insures your growth.
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In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.
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There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.
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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's got to hurt, doesn't it. It's got to dent his chance of being leader.
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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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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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Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
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Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
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Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
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The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.