Benjamin Rush Quotes
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
Benjamin Rush
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
Albert Einstein
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
Epictetus
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
William Hurt
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O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.
Randy Alcorn
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Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.
William Shakespeare
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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
Plutarch
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The American experiment is not a theocracy and does not establish an official religion, but the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are rooted in a Christian perspective of the nature of government and the nature of man. The challenge of the next millennium will be to preserve the American experiment by restoring its Christian perspective.
William H. Pryor
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The biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.
Diane Ackerman
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My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
Walter Gropius
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
Benjamin Rush
