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.
JOHN STUART MILLHowever unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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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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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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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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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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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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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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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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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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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.
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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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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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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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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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