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Samuel Butler Quotes
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The course of true anything never does run smooth (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Life is one long process of getting tired (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself (Samuel Butler Quotes)
God cannot alter the past, though historians can (Samuel Butler Quotes)
I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Oaths are but words, and words but wind (Samuel Butler Quotes)
I am not now in fortune’s power: He that is down can fall no lower (Samuel Butler Quotes)
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it (Samuel Butler Quotes)
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have (Samuel Butler Quotes)
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Like men condemned to thunderbolts, who, ere the blow, become mere dolts (Samuel Butler Quotes)
And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Drudgery and knowledge are of a kin, and both descended from one parent sin (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Saints themselves will sometimes be, of gifts that cost them nothing, free (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The trenchant blade, toledo trusty, for want of fighting was grown rusty, and ate into itself, for lack of somebody to hew and hack (Samuel Butler Quotes)