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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.

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.
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Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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Happiness Loss Music Poetry Taste
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Ability Animal Deep Difference Fundamental Happiness Man Misery Pain Pressure
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Black Blind Cat Darkness Man Mathematics Room
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.
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Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Chance Grief Loss Mind Overwhelmed Recover
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
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Light Man One Liner Origin Shed
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
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Advance Die Law Live Organic Science Strong Weak
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Chief Plant Travel View
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Animal Consideration Equality
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
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

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