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

Herbert Spencer

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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
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
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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 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
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
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
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 behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man Relationship
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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
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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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship

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