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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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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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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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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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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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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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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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