The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
HERBERT SPENCERThe preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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