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.
- People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
- Government is essentially immoral.
- Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
- Education has for its object the formation of character.
- 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.
- An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
- When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
- Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
- 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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