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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

John Stuart Mill

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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Conviction Feeling Man Raise
Language is the light of the mind.
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Language Light Mindset
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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Establishment Moral Opinion Politics Revolution
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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Force Improvement Liberty People Spirit Willing
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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Desire Man Rich
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Conclusion Evil State Subject
It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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Act Conscience Desire Man Sick Strong Weakness
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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Experience Flavor Life Risk Shelter
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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Human Invention Light Question
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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Finding Freedom Liberty Lying Right
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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Action Evil Injury Oneself Person
The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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Expression Literature Science Study Teaching Thinking Young
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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Fundamental Greatness Improvement Thinking
A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
JOHN STUART MILL

Affair Concern Freedom Himself Person
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
JOHN STUART MILL

Desire End Freedom Pain Pleasure

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