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Quote by Samuel Butler
To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going t

To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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A mans friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. – Samuel Butler

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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? – Samuel Butler

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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Immortality

It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre –but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it –the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all. – Anne Smedley

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Immortality

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form. – Charles Baudelaire

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Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! – Andrew Carnegie

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