Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCERThe behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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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.
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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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