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.
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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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