Samuel Butler Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Samuel Butler

  Fall, Tunes, Impossible

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

  Samuel Butler

  Impossible, Realizing, Deny

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

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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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  Bored, My Own, Saved

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

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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.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Training, World

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

  Samuel Butler

  Fashion, Clever, People

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

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  Death, Legacy, Decent

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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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  Death, May, Immortality

  Samuel Butler (1926). “The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler”

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• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

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  Men, Hands, Firsts

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

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• Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

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  People, Dying, Aging

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.28, Samuel Butler

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• There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

  Samuel Butler

  Evil, May, Doing Good

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

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  Vices, Virtue, Vice Versa

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

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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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  Art, Evil, Interesting

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.197, The Floating Press

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• Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

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  Men, Trying, Goodness

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

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  Men, Corny, Banality

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4298, Delphi Classics

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• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

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  Men, Oxford, Able

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

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  Pain, Style, Smallest

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4227, Delphi Classics

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• The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

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  Death, Doubt, Dying

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

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  Book, People, Wish

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

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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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  Dream, Prayer, World

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• Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

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  Country, Feelings, Peers

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.48, The Floating Press

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• If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

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  Atheist, People, Waiting

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

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  Reading, Science, Light

  "The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition".

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

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  Records, World, Weakness

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.145, The Floating Press

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• The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

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  Voice, Common Sense, Common

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4367, Delphi Classics

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• Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

  Samuel Butler

  Santa, Santa Claus

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