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.
JOHN STUART MILLPhotography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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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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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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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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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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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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