Samuel Butler
Quotations
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“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.” -Samuel Butler
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“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.” -Samuel Butler
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“Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.” -Samuel Butler
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“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.” -Samuel Butler
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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
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“If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.” -Samuel Butler
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“The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.” -Samuel Butler
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“Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.” -Samuel Butler
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“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.” -Samuel Butler
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“They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’” -Samuel Butler
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“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” -Samuel Butler
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“It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.” -Samuel Butler
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“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” -Samuel Butler
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“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.” -Samuel Butler
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“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.” -Samuel Butler
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“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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“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” -Samuel Butler
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“In law, nothing is certain but the expense.” -Samuel Butler
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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” -Samuel Butler
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“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.” -Samuel Butler
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“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.” -Samuel Butler
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“The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.” -Samuel Butler
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“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.” -Samuel Butler
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“From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.” -Samuel Butler
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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.” -Samuel Butler
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“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.” -Samuel Butler
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“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” -Samuel Butler
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“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.” -Samuel Butler
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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
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“The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.” -Samuel Butler
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“What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.” -Samuel Butler
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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” -Samuel Butler
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“Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.” -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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“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” -Samuel Butler
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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.” -Samuel Butler
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“To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.” -Samuel Butler
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“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.” -Samuel Butler
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“Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” -Samuel Butler
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