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Hugh Reginald Haweis Quotes: To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.
         

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.


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All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.



Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.



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All good government must begin at home.



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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.



Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.

Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.



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It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.



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The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.



Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.



Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.



No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.





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