Shailer Mathews Quotes

• If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing.

  Shailer Mathews

  Blessed, Blessing, Generosity

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• When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

  Shailer Mathews

  Country, History, Gone

  Shailer Mathews (2006). “The Spiritual Interpretation of History”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

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  Men, Cowardice, Refuse

  Shailer Mathews (1918). “Patriotism and Religion”

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• An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.

  Shailer Mathews

  Believe, Half, Persons

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