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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

Benjamin Rush

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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Body Madness Mind
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Disease Made Physicians
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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Evil Mother School
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
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Bible Christian Education
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Christianity Republic Strong
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Blessing Independence Day Liberty
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others.
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Art Dictatorship Religious Time
If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.
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Death Life Mean Son
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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Church Going Jesus Knowing Prevail Truth
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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Freedom Liberty Morality
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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Christian Failing Republican
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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Cases Revolution War
The Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
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Constitution Privilege Religious Special
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Frozen Hot Water
The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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Art Healing Medicine
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
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Justice Patriotism Support
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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Competition Differences Physician
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Dream Ideas Sleep
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
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Anticipate Command Freedom
As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.
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Peace Time War
I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Alternate Call Christocrat Democrat
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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Controversy Errors Fear
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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Errors Intelligent Needs
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Knowing Men Rights
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Dies Scandal
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
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Children Mean Mind
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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Believe Real Religion

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