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Favorite John Jay Chapman Quotes

1. "Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation." ~ John Jay Chapman
2. "Too much agreement kills the chat." ~ John Jay Chapman
3. "The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought." ~ John Jay Chapman
4. "Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us." ~ John Jay Chapman
5. "It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep." ~ John Jay Chapman
6. "A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind." ~ John Jay Chapman
7. "The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost." ~ John Jay Chapman
8. "Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself." ~ John Jay Chapman
9. "People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold." ~ John Jay Chapman
10. "A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect." ~ John Jay Chapman
11. "Politics is organized hatred, that is unity." ~ John Jay Chapman
12. "Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth." ~ John Jay Chapman
13. "People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it." ~ John Jay Chapman
14. "All progress is experimental." ~ John Jay Chapman

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