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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Charles Darwin

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Collaboration History Human
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
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
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
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Desert Life Love Trial
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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Essence Follow Independence Instinct Reason
Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution God
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Reading
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
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Blush Expression Human
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
CHARLES DARWIN

Important Shield Sword Victory
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Collapse Exception Man Nature Wonderful
We are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWIN

One Liner Optimism
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
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage

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