Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
JOHN STUART MILLLanguage is the light of the mind.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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