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Samuel Butler Inspirational Quotes (139)

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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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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.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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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? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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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.
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Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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History is a bucket of ashes.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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