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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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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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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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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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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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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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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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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.
Samuel Butler
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
Samuel Butler
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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
