Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
HERBERT SPENCERDivine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average 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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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