What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
HERBERT SPENCERThe great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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