We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCERVolumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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