Samuel Butler Quotes

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• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

  Samuel Butler

  Motivational

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4163, Delphi Classics

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  Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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  Integrity, Grateful, Character

  Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, William Morris (2014). “The Utopia MEGAPACK ®: 20 Classic Utopian and Dystopian Works”, p.31, Wildside Press LLC

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• Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

  Samuel Butler

  Freedom, Book, Soul

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 19

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• God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

  Samuel Butler

  Education, Past, History

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• The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

  Samuel Butler

  Health, Men, Next

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• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Educational, Learning

  Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69

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

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Notebooks "Life" (1912)

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• Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

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  Money, Silence, Use

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.128, The Floating Press

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• Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

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  Lying, Pay, Kind

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.197, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

  Samuel Butler

  Sunset, Fighting, Men

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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

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  Ignorance, Character, Pride

  Samuel Butler (1827). “The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose”, p.225

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• Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Religion, Band

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

  Samuel Butler

  Prayer, Children, Men

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Music

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.57, Samuel Butler

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• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

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  Life, Happiness, Fear

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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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.

  Samuel Butler

  Long, Littles, Remains

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4161, Delphi Classics

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• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  Samuel Butler

  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  Samuel Butler

  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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

  Samuel Butler

  Atheism, Kind, Should

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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

  Samuel Butler

  Truth, Errors, Source

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.374, The Floating Press

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• Let man be true and every god a liar.

  Samuel Butler

  Liars, Lying, Men

  "Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill".

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• No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

  Samuel Butler

  Mistake, Common, Logic

  Samuel Butler (1970). “A critical and annotated edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon”

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