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

Herbert Spencer

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
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Death Live Moments Place
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
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
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

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