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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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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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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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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Form Government Old Terror
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
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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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Death Live Moments Place
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order

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