The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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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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