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Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
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
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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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
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
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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
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
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship

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