The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other … - Herbert Spencer

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It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.

Herbert Spencer

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

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The law is the survival of the fittest. . . . The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

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

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