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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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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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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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