Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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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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