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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

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man 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 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
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
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
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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

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

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