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Humanity

Quotations from the Wayside

I am a human being. Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.
ANONYMOUS

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs in us.
FRANCIS BACON

Love is the weaver; the threads are living folk.
RAYMOND BAUGHAN

We may not know what God is, but we can know what it means to be human.
PAUL CARNES

This country is entrusted by God with a mission for humanity.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING

Please don’t criticize me for being human. It’s my most redeeming feature.
CYNTHIA J. GOULD

To be human is not a fact, but a task.
FREDERICK H. HEINEMANN

With malice toward none; with charity for all; let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We never move toward the divine by ignoring the human.
WILLIAM LYNCH

It’s great to be great, but greater to be human.
WILL ROGERS

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER

There is a common humanity that transcends all differences in dogma.
GEORGE STODDARD

There is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
LEWIS THOMAS

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