A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
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The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
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