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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

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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
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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Form Government Old Terror
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
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
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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
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
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
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science

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