German - Educator | August 13, 1851 - April 24, 1933
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Felix Adler
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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