The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
HERBERT SPENCERBe bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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