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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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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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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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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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Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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