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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. - [Mothers] The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. - [Majority] The morrow, fair with purple beams, dispersed the shadows of the misty night. - [Morning] There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. - [Generosity] Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. - [Piety] We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. - [Prejudice] We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. - [Conquest] What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. - [Law] Science is organised knowledge. - Education (ch. II) [Science] We too often forget that not only is there a "soul of goodness in things evil," but very generally a soul of truth in things erroneous. - First Principles [Evil] Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. - First Principles (ch. XVI, par. 138) [Evolution] This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life." - Principles of Biology--Indirect Equilibration [Evolution] Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight line. - Social Statics (ch. XXXII, par. 4) [Action] Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies. - Sociology [Results] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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