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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
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The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
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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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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
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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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Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
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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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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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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear so surely must man become perfect.
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Lusts are like agues the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.
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All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.
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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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Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.
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Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.
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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
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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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The society exists for the benefit of its members not its members for the benefit of the society.
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