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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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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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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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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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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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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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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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