Every cause produces more than one effect.
HERBERT SPENCERDivine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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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