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Herbert Spencer has 122 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they…
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think…
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that…
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious…
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If…
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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…
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for…
— Unknown Author
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DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.
— Herbert Spencer
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For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain
— Adam Lindsay Gordon
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Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only…
— Mark Twain
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I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
— Abraham Verghese
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The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.
— Kay Ryan
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Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent…
— David Mitchell
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
— Anita Brookner
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Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.
— Rob Lowe
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