Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANTwo people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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