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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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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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Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
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It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
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I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.
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There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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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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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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Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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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.
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