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“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Heart Dream Desire Night Doors Weak Smell Driven Temptation Temples Day And Night Weak Points

Book:Written On The Body

Source: Written On The Body

“A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.”

Men Desire Emotion Tears Source Weak Unhappy Innocent Pity Cherish Championship Manly

Book:Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

Source: Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.”

Ifs Men May Running Lasts Desire Grows Cutting Weak Let Me Painful Generous Stem Affliction Vines Superfluous

Author:Joseph Hall

“The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.”

Self Form Desire Attention Objects Weak Vanity Dread

Book:Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

Source: Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

“What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.”

Persons Desire Opinion Weak Suits

Author:Ibn Hazm

“I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.”

“The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.”