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• The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

  John Jay Chapman

  Growing Up, Lying, Men

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

  John Jay Chapman

  Enemy, Reform, Prejudice

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• 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

  Life, Teacher, Teaching

  John Jay Chapman (1957). “Selected Writings”

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• Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

  John Jay Chapman

  Culture, Steps, Easy

  John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.88, University of Illinois Press

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• If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

  John Jay Chapman

  People, Literature, World

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”

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• The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Thinking, Voting

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Thinking, Years

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

  John Jay Chapman

  Government, Outcomes, Virtue

  John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.19, University of Illinois Press

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• When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Discovery, Goes On

  John Jay Chapman (1899). “Causes and Consequences”

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• It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Long, Three

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• 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

  Love, Dog, Hate

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Self, Age

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• A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

  John Jay Chapman

  Organization, Political, Thieves

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Mind, Enemy

  John Jay Chapman's Commencement Address at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, 1900.

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• The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.

  John Jay Chapman

  Religious, Long, Political

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Long, May

  John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.116, University of Illinois Press

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• The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

  John Jay Chapman

  New York, Powerful, Past

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.

  John Jay Chapman

  Hands, Age, Uniforms

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.

  John Jay Chapman

  Teacher, Teaching, Home

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• 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

  Vision, Doe, Armchairs

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Greek studies”

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• A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

  John Jay Chapman

  Inspirational, Education, Men

  John Jay Chapman (1968). “The selected writings of John Jay Chapman”

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• The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Men, Sight

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”

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