Paul P. Harris
Lawyer
1868-04-19
Quotes by Paul P. Harris
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In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
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Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
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It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.
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In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
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Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
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The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.
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The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.
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If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
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