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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
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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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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
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Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.
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No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
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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 most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
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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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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
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