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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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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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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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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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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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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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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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