He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
CHARLES DARWINAn American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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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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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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Only the fittest will survive.
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