No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
JOHN STUART MILLLet not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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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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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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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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