Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
HERBERT SPENCERBe bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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