Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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