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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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Let man be true and every god a liar.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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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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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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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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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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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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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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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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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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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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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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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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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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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