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Charles Darwin Quote - 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.

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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Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
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Book Fire Music Picture Sofa Wife Yourself
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
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Black Blind Cat Darkness Man Mathematics Room
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
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
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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Attack Fame Love Truth
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
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Collection Fact General Grind Machine Mind
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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Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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Adapt Environment Expense Rival Struggle Success Survival Win
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.
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Animal Arrogance Believe Humble Man Work Worth
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
The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
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Happiness Loss Music Poetry Taste
The normal food of man is vegetable.
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Food Man One Liner Positive Vegetarian
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
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Feet Man
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
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Goodness Man Nature Selection
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
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
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Chief Plant Travel View
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Feeling Hopeless Ignorance Immensity Man Thinking
An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
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Agnostic Correction Description Mind State
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
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Adapt Leadership Quick Survival
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
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Industry Patience Quick Science Time Writing
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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Cold Devote Evolution Fantasy Myself
A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Appearance Language Species
For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Important Shield Sword Victory
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
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Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
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
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Desert Life Love Trial
The willing horse is always overworked.
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Horse One Liner Work

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