Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
HERBERT SPENCERThose who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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