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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Herbert Spencer

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
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 ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
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
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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 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
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 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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing

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