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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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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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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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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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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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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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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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