Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCEROpinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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