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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we

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. – Samuel Butler

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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Genius
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. – Samuel Butler

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler

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Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. – Swami Vivekananda

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

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If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me. – Saint Patrick

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