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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

Charles Darwin

The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
CHARLES DARWIN

Essence Follow Independence Instinct Reason
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Blush Expression Human
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
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Descend Habit Hairs Man Probable Tail
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Reading
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
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Fix Law Nature One Liner Result
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Important Shield Sword Victory
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absorb Evil Man Myself 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
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
CHARLES DARWIN

Light Man One Liner Origin Shed
He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chance Grief Loss Mind Overwhelmed Recover

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