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Every cause produces more than one effect.

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts!

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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

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To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

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With a perfect economy, Nature turns all forces to account.

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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

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The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin-deep saying.

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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

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Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

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The tyranny of Mrs. Grundy is worse than any other tyranny we suffer under.

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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

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Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.

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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

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Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

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Where there are no distinctions of structure there are no distinctions of function.

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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

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The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

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Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas....

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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

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With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

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A higher knowledge tends continually to limit our interference with the processes of life.

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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

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Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.

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A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

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Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

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