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Quotations by author » Samuel Butler
English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902
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To be at all is to be religious more or less
Religious love
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Death and dying
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.
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To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes
Youth
To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it
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To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
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Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
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Virgil was no good because Tennyson ran him, and as for Tennyson - well, Tennyson goes without saying.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself
ArgumentsHumanityMankindTemper
We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire
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We think as we do, mainly because other people think so
Thinking
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, "I bet that my Redeemer liveth."
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year.
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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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