The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
BENJAMIN RUSHControversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
More Benjamin Rush Quotes
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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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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By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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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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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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Now 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.
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[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
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It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, ’till he returns to them again.
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The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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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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