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.
HERBERT SPENCEROur lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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