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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spencer

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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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Form Government Old Terror
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man Relationship
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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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Death Live Moments Place
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
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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End Life Love Wealth
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science

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