Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
HERBERT SPENCERMusic 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 preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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