Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
CHARLES DARWINI have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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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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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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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 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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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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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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I am not the least afraid to die.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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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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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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