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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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 behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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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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