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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.

Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.
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Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.
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It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
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Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
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Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.
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The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.
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