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.
HERBERT SPENCERA 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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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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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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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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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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 ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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