The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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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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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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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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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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