"To have a specific style is to be…" — Herbert Spencer

"To have a specific style is to be poor in speech."

— Herbert Spencer

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113 Quotes by Herbert Spencer

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on,…
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the…
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the…
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become…
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less…
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that…
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the… — Aristotle
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the… — Saint Augustine
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;… — Teresa of Avila
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. — Francis Bacon
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out… — Russell Baker
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is… — Abu Bakr
I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still… — Amy Adams
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while… — Honore de Balzac
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health… — Bob Barker

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