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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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