Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
BENJAMIN RUSHNow if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.
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A belief in God’s universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .
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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.
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Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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