God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.Samuel Butler
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes, The tools of working out salvation By mere mechanic operation.
Samuel Butler
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Samuel Butler
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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