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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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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
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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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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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Color Glass Project Pull See
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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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End Life Love Wealth
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing

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