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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

Charles Darwin

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
CHARLES DARWIN

Act Government Law Planet Satellite Science Sun System Universe
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.
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Imagination Increase Interest Knowledge Limitation Man Neighbor Perhaps Possess Subject
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
CHARLES DARWIN

Evolution Life Struggle Truth Universe Word
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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Evolution Natural Preserve Principle Selection Variation
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Desert Life Love Trial
Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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Alone Imagination Pain Pleasure Quite Thinking
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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Animal Instinct Love Moral Quality Social Sympathy
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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Feet Man
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Blind Chance Conceive Immense Impossible Necessary Result Universe Wonderful
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
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Build Result Smart
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Change Strong World
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

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