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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

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
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
CHARLES DARWIN

Detail Discuss Existence Struggle
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
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Experiment Fools Love
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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Essence Follow Independence Instinct Reason
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Blush Expression Human
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
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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Friendship Man Measure Worth
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Book Reading
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Ability Animal Deep Difference Fundamental Happiness Man Misery Pain Pressure
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
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
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Desert Life Love Trial
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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Error Establishment Fact Kill Service Truth
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

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.

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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.

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