Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
HERBERT SPENCERLove 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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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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