John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Herbert Spencer. (1820–1903) |
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| We too often forget that not only is there “a soul of goodness in things evil,” 1 but very generally a soul of truth in things erroneous. |
| First Principles. |
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| 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. |
| First Principles. |
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| Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. |
| First Principles. |
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| We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. |
| First Principles. |
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| Survival of the fittest. |
| First Principles. |
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| With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior. |
| First Principles. |
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| Evil perpetually tends to disappear. 2 |
| The Evanescence of Evil. |
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| Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries or distinctions of race. |
| The Evanescence of Evil. |
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| No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. |
| The Evanescence of Evil. |
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| The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature—a type nowhere at present existing. |
| The Americans. |
| Note 1. Shakespeare: Henry V, act iv. sc. i. There is some soul of goodness in things evil Would men observingly distil it out. [back] |
| Note 2. Walt Whitman: Roaming in Thought. [back] |