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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.

John Stuart Mill

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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Ability Act Belief Majority Man
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Choice Custom Himself
As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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Conclusion Cultivation Draw Narrow Study
When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Ability Challenge Defend Ideas Weakness
The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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Expression Literature Science Study Teaching Thinking Young
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Assumption Discussion Fall Silence
The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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Eternal Liberty Love Power
Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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Errors Opinion Preparation Suffering Thinking Truth
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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Fundamental Greatness Improvement Thinking
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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Choice Himself Imitation Planning World
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Crush Despotism Individual
Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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Adverse Chance Opinion Subject Supply Truth
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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Experience Flavor Life Risk Shelter
Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Body Mindset Oneself Sovereign
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Advancement Custom Despotism Human
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Conscience Form Goodness Harm Man Oneself

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.

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