Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
HERBERT SPENCERWhen a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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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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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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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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