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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

Charles Darwin

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
CHARLES DARWIN

Alcohol Drunk Men Monkey Wise
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Corner Earth Hen Knowledge Scratch Strike Structure
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
CHARLES DARWIN

Greatness One Liner Power Steady
In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.
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Appearance Country Distant Improvement Journey Nature Science
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
CHARLES DARWIN

Aid Creation Done Hope Separate Service
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
CHARLES DARWIN

Giving Goodness Reason Religion Volume
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWIN

Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
CHARLES DARWIN

Collapse Exception Man Nature Wonderful
The loss of tastes for poetry and music is a loss of happiness.
CHARLES DARWIN

Happiness Loss Music Poetry Taste
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
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.
CHARLES DARWIN

Industry Patience Quick Science Time Writing
Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Chance Freedom Matter Mind One Liner
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
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN

Children Future Present Surround
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
CHARLES DARWIN

Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

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