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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Charles Darwin

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
CHARLES DARWIN

Collapse Exception Man Nature Wonderful
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Agony Care Death Dog Love Loyalty Master
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
CHARLES DARWIN

Advance Die Law Live Organic Science Strong Weak
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Fire Music Picture Sofa Wife Yourself
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
CHARLES DARWIN

Experiment Fools Love
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
CHARLES DARWIN

Friendship Man Measure Worth
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Strong World
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
CHARLES DARWIN

Greatness One Liner Power Steady
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
CHARLES DARWIN

Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
CHARLES DARWIN

Attack Fame Love Truth
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
CHARLES DARWIN

Encounter Energy Travel Vegetarian Work World
We are optimists, until we are not.
CHARLES DARWIN

One Liner Optimism
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
CHARLES DARWIN

Desert Life Love Trial
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN

Feeling Hopeless Ignorance Immensity Man Thinking
The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
CHARLES DARWIN

Imagination Increase Interest Knowledge Limitation Man Neighbor Perhaps Possess Subject
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWIN

Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden

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