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The willing horse is always overworked.

Charles Darwin

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
CHARLES DARWIN

Beginning Content Mystery Remainning
We are optimists, until we are not.
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One Liner Optimism
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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Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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Animal Beyond Confine Humanity Moral Sympathy
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Control Culture Moral Recognise Stage Thinking
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Constitution Moral
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
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Collapse Exception Man Nature Wonderful
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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Beauty Cast Same Science
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
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Book Reading
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
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
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
I am not the least afraid to die.
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Afraid Beast Die One Liner
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
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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Acquire Conclude Female Male Mankind Music Rhythm

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