We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
HERBERT SPENCERDivine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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 preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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A 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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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