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• That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the…
• What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would…
• For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for…
• There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it…
• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean…
• Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as…
• That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready…
• Veracity is the heart of morality.
• If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it…
• If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
• As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,…
• Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they…

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