Quote by Samuel Butler
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the divis

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler

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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. – Samuel Butler

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Seasons
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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Life
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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? Numbers 23:19 – Bible

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One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god. – Jean Rostand

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God

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God

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. – Samuel Butler

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God

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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. – Graham Greene

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War

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. – Mary MacLane

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Happiness

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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