I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
CHARLES DARWINHe who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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I am not the least afraid to die.
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We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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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.
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In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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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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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
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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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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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