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

Herbert Spencer

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Form Government Old Terror
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
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
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 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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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
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
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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

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