How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
HERBERT SPENCERScience is organized knowledge.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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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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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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