Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
HERBERT SPENCERDivine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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 ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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