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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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The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
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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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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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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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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 freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also only of a less intense kind.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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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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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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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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Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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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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We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
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Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
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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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