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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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 death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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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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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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