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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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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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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