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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Herbert Spencer

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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End Life Love Wealth
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object

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