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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Herbert Spencer

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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Color Glass Project Pull See
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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
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
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
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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
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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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production

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