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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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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Writing
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler

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Art
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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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Opinion
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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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The self-existent Lord pierced the senses to turn outward. Thus we look to the world outside and see not the Self within us. A sage withdrew his senses from the world of change and, seeking immortality, looked within and beheld the deathless self. – Katha Upanishad

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If there is a God, mans immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having. – Edgar Sheffield Brightman

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We feel and know that we are eternal. – Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

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Immortality

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life. – Aristotle

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You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end. – George Armstrong Custer

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