Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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 jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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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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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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