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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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Genius Growth Minority Person Preserve Small
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Circle Government Imagination Step
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Average General Kind Man World
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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Aspiration Beautiful Natural Presence Sick Society Solitude
Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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Adverse Chance Opinion Subject Supply Truth
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Atmosphere Breathe Freedom Genius
To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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Children Crime Existence Instruction Mindset Prospect Society Training
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Ability Challenge Defend Ideas Weakness
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Stupidity World
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Choice Custom Himself
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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Cultivation Life Mental Reason Satisfaction
Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
JOHN STUART MILL

Body Mindset Oneself Sovereign
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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Human Lawyer Object University
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original

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