The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
HERBERT SPENCERVolumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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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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