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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
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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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Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.
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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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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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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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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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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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The society exists for the benefit of its members not its members for the benefit of the society.
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No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.
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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 presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
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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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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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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
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The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.
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Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
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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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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
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