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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
Benjamin Rush
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Benjamin Rush
Age: 67 †
Born: 1746
Born: January 7
Died: 1813
Died: April 19
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
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If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.
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Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
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It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
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A simple democracy is the devil's own government.
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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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