Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
CHARLES DARWINSympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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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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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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 picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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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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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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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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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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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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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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