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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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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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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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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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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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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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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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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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