All Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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