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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.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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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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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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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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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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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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