Page 5: Quotations Page With 'E'

The 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.

- Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology -

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Evolution is not the force but a process, not a cause but a law.

- Lord morley, Compromise -

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Nothing is so infectious as example.

- Charles Kingsley -

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Example is lesson that all men can read.

- Gilbert West -

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Fearless minds climb soonest upon crowns.

- Shakespeare -

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The best things carried to excess are wrong.

- Churchill, Rosciad -

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Experience keeps a dear school , yet Fools will learn in another.

- Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac for 1743 -

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A sadder and a wiser man.He rose the morrow morn.

- S.T.Coleridge -

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I wish he would explain his explanation.

- Byron, Don Juan -

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The language of the soul never lends itself to expression. It rises superior to the body. Language is a limitation of the truth which can only be represented by life.

- Mahatma Gandhi, Harijan -

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Extravagance and good luck, by long custom, go hand in hand.

- Madame D.Arblay, Camilla -

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Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

- Theophratus -

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Avoid extremes.

- Clecobulus of Lindes -

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Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

- Wm.Blake, Proverbs of Hell -

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Nither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

- Fielding -

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The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.

- German Proverb -

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We must look the world in the face with calm eyes even though the eyes of the world are bloodshot today.

- Mahatma Gandhi -

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