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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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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Form Government Old Terror
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
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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Death Live Moments Place
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory

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