We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCEROur lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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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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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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