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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Herbert SpencerLaw and Lawyers - 2
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert SpencerJury - 3
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert SpencerChange - 4
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
Herbert SpencerUncategorised - 5
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Herbert SpencerRisk -
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Herbert SpencerKing - 7
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 SpencerUncategorised - 8
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert SpencerWords - 9
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert SpencerLife and Living - 10
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.
Herbert SpencerLove - 11
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert SpencerMarriage - 12
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.
Herbert SpencerUncategorised - 13
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert SpencerHappiness - 14
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert SpencerScience and Scientists - 15
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 SpencerEvolution -
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert SpencerHealth - 17
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 SpencerRepublicanism - 18
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert SpencerFools and Foolishness - 19
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 SpencerIgnorance - 20
Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Herbert SpencerTime and Time Management
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