The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
HERBERT SPENCERA living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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