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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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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 wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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