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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…
- A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable…
- The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt…
- There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to…
- Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
- All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
- The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
- The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which…
- The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces,…
- As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good,…
- All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color…
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling…
- The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable…
- Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to…
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