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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.	William Hazlitt	[ "death" ]
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.	William Hazlitt	[ "nature", "poetry", "respect" ]
It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.	William Hazlitt	[ "travel" ]
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.	William Hazlitt	[ "friendship" ]
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.	William Hazlitt	[ "friendship" ]
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.	William Hazlitt	[ "age", "nature" ]
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.	William Hazlitt	[ "truth" ]
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.	William Hazlitt	[ "nature" ]
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.	William Hazlitt	[ "learning" ]
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.	William Hazlitt	[ "fear" ]
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.	William Hazlitt	[ "learning" ]
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.	William Hazlitt	[ "courage" ]
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.	William Hazlitt	[ "travel" ]
We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.	William Henry Ashley	[ "morning" ]
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.	William Henry Harrison	[ "government" ]
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.	William Henry Harrison	[ "nature", "power" ]
Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.	William Henry Hudson	[ "cool" ]
Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know your bank account of knowledge is much richer.	William Holden	[ "knowledge" ]
Politics makes me sick.	William Howard Taft	[ "politics" ]
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.	William Howard Taft	[ "failure" ]
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.	William Howard Taft	[ "nature" ]
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.	William Howard Taft	[ "humor" ]
I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.	William Howard Taft	[ "politics" ]
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.	William Howard Taft	[ "politics" ]
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.	William Hull	[ "morning" ]
Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.	William Hull	[ "sympathy" ]
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.	William Irwin Thompson	[ "science" ]
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.	William Irwin Thompson	[ "imagination" ]
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.	William Irwin Thompson	[ "intelligence" ]
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.	William Irwin Thompson	[ "teacher" ]
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.	William Irwin Thompson	[ "failure", "imagination" ]
One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.	William Irwin Thompson	[ "food" ]
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.	William James	[ "education", "good" ]
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.	William James	[ "faith" ]
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.	William James	[ "life" ]
Man lives for science as well as bread.	William James	[ "science" ]
Truth is what works.	William James	[ "truth" ]
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.	William James	[ "happiness", "men" ]
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.	William James	[ "life" ]
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.	William James	[ "power" ]
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.	William James	[ "faith" ]
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.	William James	[ "best" ]
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.	William James	[ "great", "history" ]
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.	William James	[ "god" ]
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.	William James	[ "life" ]
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.	William James	[ "good" ]
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.	William James	[ "great" ]
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.	William James	[ "change", "future" ]
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.	William James	[ "attitude", "sad" ]
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.	William James	[ "truth" ]
Belief creates the actual fact.	William James	[ "inspirational" ]
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.	William James	[ "change", "fear", "history" ]
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.	William James	[ "attitude" ]
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.	William James	[ "age" ]
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.	William James	[ "life" ]
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.	William James	[ "nature" ]
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.	William James	[ "attitude", "relationship" ]
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.	William James	[ "faith" ]
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.	William James	[ "humor" ]
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.	William James	[ "truth" ]
Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.	William James	[ "work" ]
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.	William James	[ "men" ]
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.	William James	[ "experience", "good" ]
Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.	William James	[ "knowledge" ]
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.	William James	[ "attitude", "failure", "men", "positive", "success" ]
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.	William James	[ "motivational" ]
In business for yourself, not by yourself.	William James	[ "business" ]
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.	William James	[ "sports" ]
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.	William James	[ "happiness" ]
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.	William James	[ "great" ]
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!	William James	[ "faith" ]
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.	William James	[ "leadership" ]
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.	William James	[ "motivational" ]
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.	William James	[ "great", "life" ]
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.	William James	[ "art", "wisdom" ]
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.	William James	[ "failure", "faith" ]
Time itself comes in drops.	William James	[ "time" ]
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.	William James	[ "truth" ]
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.	William James	[ "good" ]
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.	William James	[ "leadership" ]
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.	William James	[ "learning", "wisdom" ]
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.	William James	[ "sympathy" ]
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.	William James	[ "best" ]
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.	William James	[ "experience" ]
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.	William James	[ "change", "life" ]
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.	William James	[ "business", "god", "science" ]
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.	William James	[ "nature", "power" ]
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.	William Jennings Bryan	[ "education", "religion" ]
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.	William Jennings Bryan	[ "fear" ]
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.	William Jennings Bryan	[ "future" ]
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.	William Jennings Bryan	[ "hope" ]
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.	William Jennings Bryan	[ "history" ]
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.	William Jennings Bryan	[ "government" ]
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.	William Jennings Bryan	[ "respect" ]
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.	William Jennings Bryan	[ "faith", "god", "money", "teacher" ]
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.	William Jennings Bryan	[ "science" ]
What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.	William John Wills	[ "trust" ]
We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.	William John Wills	[ "morning" ]
The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.	William John Wills	[ "positive" ]
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.	William John Wills	[ "education", "knowledge" ]

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

William Hazlitt

[ "death" ]

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

William Hazlitt

[ "nature", "poetry", "respect" ]

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

William Hazlitt

[ "travel" ]

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

William Hazlitt

[ "friendship" ]

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

William Hazlitt

[ "friendship" ]

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

William Hazlitt

[ "age", "nature" ]

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

William Hazlitt

[ "truth" ]

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt

[ "nature" ]

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

William Hazlitt

[ "learning" ]

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

William Hazlitt

[ "fear" ]

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

William Hazlitt

[ "learning" ]

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

[ "courage" ]

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

William Hazlitt

[ "travel" ]

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.

William Henry Ashley

[ "morning" ]

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison

[ "government" ]

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

William Henry Harrison

[ "nature", "power" ]

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

William Henry Hudson

[ "cool" ]

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

William Holden

[ "knowledge" ]

Politics makes me sick.

William Howard Taft

[ "politics" ]

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

William Howard Taft

[ "failure" ]

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

William Howard Taft

[ "nature" ]

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

William Howard Taft

[ "humor" ]

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

William Howard Taft

[ "politics" ]

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

William Howard Taft

[ "politics" ]

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

William Hull

[ "morning" ]

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

William Hull

[ "sympathy" ]

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

William Irwin Thompson

[ "science" ]

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

William Irwin Thompson

[ "imagination" ]

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

William Irwin Thompson

[ "intelligence" ]

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Irwin Thompson

[ "teacher" ]

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

William Irwin Thompson

[ "failure", "imagination" ]

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

William Irwin Thompson

[ "food" ]

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

William James

[ "education", "good" ]

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

[ "faith" ]

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

[ "life" ]

Man lives for science as well as bread.

William James

[ "science" ]

Truth is what works.

William James

[ "truth" ]

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

[ "happiness", "men" ]

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

[ "life" ]

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

William James

[ "power" ]

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

William James

[ "faith" ]

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

[ "best" ]

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

William James

[ "great", "history" ]

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

William James

[ "god" ]

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

William James

[ "life" ]

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

[ "good" ]

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

[ "great" ]

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

William James

[ "change", "future" ]

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.

William James

[ "attitude", "sad" ]

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

William James

[ "truth" ]

Belief creates the actual fact.

William James

[ "inspirational" ]

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

William James

[ "change", "fear", "history" ]

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

William James

[ "attitude" ]

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

William James

[ "age" ]

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

[ "life" ]

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

[ "nature" ]

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

William James

[ "attitude", "relationship" ]

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

William James

[ "faith" ]

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

William James

[ "humor" ]

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

William James

[ "truth" ]

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

William James

[ "work" ]

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

William James

[ "men" ]

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

[ "experience", "good" ]

Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

William James

[ "knowledge" ]

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

William James

[ "attitude", "failure", "men", "positive", "success" ]

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

William James

[ "motivational" ]

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

William James

[ "business" ]

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

William James

[ "sports" ]

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

William James

[ "happiness" ]

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

[ "great" ]

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

William James

[ "faith" ]

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James

[ "leadership" ]

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

[ "motivational" ]

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

[ "great", "life" ]

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

[ "art", "wisdom" ]

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

William James

[ "failure", "faith" ]

Time itself comes in drops.

William James

[ "time" ]

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

William James

[ "truth" ]

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

William James

[ "good" ]

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

[ "leadership" ]

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

[ "learning", "wisdom" ]

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

[ "sympathy" ]

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

William James

[ "best" ]

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

William James

[ "experience" ]

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

William James

[ "change", "life" ]

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

William James

[ "business", "god", "science" ]

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

William James

[ "nature", "power" ]

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

William Jennings Bryan

[ "education", "religion" ]

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

William Jennings Bryan

[ "fear" ]

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

[ "future" ]

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

William Jennings Bryan

[ "hope" ]

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

William Jennings Bryan

[ "history" ]

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

William Jennings Bryan

[ "government" ]

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Jennings Bryan

[ "respect" ]

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

William Jennings Bryan

[ "faith", "god", "money", "teacher" ]

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.

William Jennings Bryan

[ "science" ]

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

William John Wills

[ "trust" ]

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

William John Wills

[ "morning" ]

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

William John Wills

[ "positive" ]

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

William John Wills

[ "education", "knowledge" ]