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The willing horse is always overworked.

Charles Darwin

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWIN

Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
CHARLES DARWIN

Detail Discuss Existence Struggle
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Fire Music Picture Sofa Wife Yourself
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
CHARLES DARWIN

Absolute Addition Natural Requirement Science Selection Stage Theory
Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
CHARLES DARWIN

Change Prove Record Species
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
CHARLES DARWIN

Animal Collaboration History Human
We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
CHARLES DARWIN

Deep Inside Look Monster Realize Stop
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
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
CHARLES DARWIN

Adapt Change Inspirational Intelligence Species Strong Survival
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN

Feeling Hopeless Ignorance Immensity Man Thinking
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN

Book Reading
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
CHARLES DARWIN

Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Life Listen Music Poetry Rule Week
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Acquire Conclude Female Male Mankind Music Rhythm
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
CHARLES DARWIN

Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
CHARLES DARWIN

Chance Grief Loss Mind Overwhelmed Recover

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