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Charles Alexander Eastman Quotes: As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.
         

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.


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Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!



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Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.



But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!



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Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.



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There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.



Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?



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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.



He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.



In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.



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The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.





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