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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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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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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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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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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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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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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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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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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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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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