Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
HERBERT SPENCERLove 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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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