People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
HERBERT SPENCEROld forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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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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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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