Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
WOODROW WILSONNo man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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