Samuel Butler Short Quotes

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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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Water is frozen steam, and ice frozen water.

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Evaporation is an unseen heavenward waterfall.

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I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.

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

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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

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The true laws of God are the laws of our own well-being.

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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

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Diseases of their own accord, But cures come difficult and hard.

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All men can do great things, if they know what great things are.

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As if a man should be dissected, To see what part is disaffected.

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God is Love — I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!

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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

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This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of Scepters and of Crowns.

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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

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Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.

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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

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To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

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It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.

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Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

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So in the wicked there's no vice
Of which the saints have not a spice.

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Nothing is so cruel as to try and force a man beyond his natural pace.

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

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