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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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