Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
HERBERT SPENCERHero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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