A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCEROpinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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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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