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

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler

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Life
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. – Samuel Butler

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God
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To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

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Life
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. – Ruth Bernhard

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Nature

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not. – Patricia Highsmith

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Nature

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. – Thomas Paine

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Nature

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