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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

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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
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
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Form Government Old Terror
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word

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