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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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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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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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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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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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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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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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