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Samuel Butler Inspirational Quotes (139)

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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.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person its importance not being fully recognized for some time.
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It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
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Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
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When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
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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.
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