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There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone
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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Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
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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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A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
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A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.
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The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
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