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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.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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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 history of art is the history of revivals.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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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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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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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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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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