Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
HERBERT SPENCERWe do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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