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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

John Stuart Mill

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
JOHN STUART MILL

Absence Action Happiness Pain Pleasure Proportion Reverse Right
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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Development Force Human Live Machine Nature Requirement Tree
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Brief Complex Luck Photography
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Bad End Goodness Man
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Assumption Discussion Fall Silence
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
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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Achievement Appearance Born Chance Desire Freedom Human Life Place
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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Human Lawyer Object University
In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Action Character Evidence Goodness
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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Greatness Known Tradition
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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Easy Home Land Mistake Money Way Wealth
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
JOHN STUART MILL

Conviction Feeling Man Raise
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Choice Custom Himself
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle
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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Activity Choice Discrimination Faculty Human Mental

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