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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.

Charles Darwin

The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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Attribution Creature Live Love Man
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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Absurd Confession Degree Natural Possible Selection
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
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Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Feeling Hopeless Ignorance Immensity Man Thinking
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Life Listen Music Poetry Rule Week
Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Alone Existence Life Relationship
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Control Culture Moral Possible Recognize Stage Thinking
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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Industry Patience Quick Science Time Writing
Only the fittest will survive.
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Fitness Gumnastic One Liner Survival
Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Death Original Pursue
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cold Devote Evolution Fantasy Myself
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win

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