Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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