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The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.
Jane Addams
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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
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If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
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The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.
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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
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That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.
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In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's Messiah, it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.
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A wise man has told us that men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in.
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Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
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It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.
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As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.
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It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.
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Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.
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The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.
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