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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Herbert Spencer

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
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success

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