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Quote by Samuel Butler
Self-preservation is the first law of nature. - Samuel Butler

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? – Samuel Butler

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Marriage
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Samuel Butler
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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Samuel Butler
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill

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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. – Paul Cezanne

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Nature

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. – Jean Paul

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Nature

Its human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isnt banging loudly on the door. – David Hackworth

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