The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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