The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
CHARLES DARWINHow paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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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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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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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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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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