The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
HERBERT SPENCERMusic 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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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