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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.
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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
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But these few are the salt of the earth without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.
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Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?
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A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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All action is for the sake of some end and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
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All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.
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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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