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Samuel Butler

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

-Samuel Butler

architecture

The history of art is the history of revivals.

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art

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

-Samuel Butler

art

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

-Samuel Butler

art

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

-Samuel Butler

art

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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art

To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

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beauty

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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best

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

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best

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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best

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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best

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

-Samuel Butler

best

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

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business

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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death

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

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death

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

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death

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

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death

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

-Samuel Butler

death

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

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death

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

-Samuel Butler

death

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

-Samuel Butler

death

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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dreams

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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experience

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

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faith

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.

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faith

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

-Samuel Butler

faith

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

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family

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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fear

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

-Samuel Butler

fear

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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food

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

-Samuel Butler

friendship

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

-Samuel Butler

funny

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

-Samuel Butler

god

Samuel Butler

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

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.

To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

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.

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.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

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

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

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.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

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