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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man Relationship
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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
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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End Life Love Wealth
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
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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Death Live Moments Place
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
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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Color Glass Project Pull See
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right

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