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Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious naturethis is alike the aim of parent and teacher.
-Herbert Spencer
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All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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Change
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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.
-Herbert Spencer
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Confusion
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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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Evolution
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The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
-Herbert Spencer
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Government
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.
-Herbert Spencer
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Happiness
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Health
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Justice
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Law
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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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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Life
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Love
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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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Marriage
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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Questions
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
-Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology, London, 1864
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Risk
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Royalty, Kings, Queens
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Science
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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Science is organized knowledge.
-Herbert Spencer
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Time
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Time: that which man is always trying to kill, ends in killing him.
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Words
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Youth
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It was remarked to me by the late Mr. Charles Roupell . . . that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.
-Herbert Spencer, In Life and Letters of Spencer, ch. 20, by Duncan.
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Books by and about Herbert Spencer