The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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