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When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.

— Charles Fletcher Dole The Coming People (1897)

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Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.

The Spirit of Democracy (1906)

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God’s world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

The Coming People (1897)

Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.

Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.

The Coming Religion (1910)

It is a world of startling possibilities.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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