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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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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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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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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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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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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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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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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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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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