Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
CHARLES DARWINHe who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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