It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler in The Way of All Flesh
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

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Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

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