If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
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