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

Herbert Spencer

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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
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
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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
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
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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