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The Standard

«I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.»
«It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?»
«Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.»
«Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: ambushes, devised, The Standard, watchmen
«Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: retire, The Standard, Zion
«In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: The Standard
«On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Reuben, The Standard
«In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty /he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world /alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.»
«It is not the standard of living that is important, but the manner of living.»
«In fact, it is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us, to have produced the first legislature w»

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