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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Herbert Spencer

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
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
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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
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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

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