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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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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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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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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
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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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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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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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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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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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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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He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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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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