Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
HERBERT SPENCERThe great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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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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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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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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