Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
HERBERT SPENCERThe preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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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.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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.
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