Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear les… — Quoted

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“Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.”

Samuel Butler · Fear

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Samuel Butler

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.

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

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