Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Quote by Herbert Spencer
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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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Herbert Spencer Quotes
- The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- 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.
- Education has for its object the formation of character.
- Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
- The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
- Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
- Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
- When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
- 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.
- Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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