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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
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The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
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Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.
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Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.
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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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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
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Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
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A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
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