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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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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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