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• Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

  Samuel Butler

  Fate, Destiny

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• He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

  Samuel Butler

  Agreement, Liberty, Opinion

  'Hudibras' pt. 3 (1680), canto 3, l. 547

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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  Samuel Butler

  Bible, Biblical, May

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

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  Two, Exception To The Rule, Trying

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• Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

  Samuel Butler

  Maturity, Demand, Women Bashing

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• Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

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  Past, History, Existence

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• History is a bucket of ashes.

  Samuel Butler

  Carpe Diem, Buckets, Ashes

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• I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

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  Sorry, Regret, Believe

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

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• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

  Samuel Butler

  Art, Interesting, Youth

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

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• He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

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  Greatness, Men, Good Thoughts

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4255, Delphi Classics

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• If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

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  Death, Men, Dying

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4374, Delphi Classics

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• There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

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  Gossip, Roaring, Lions

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4250, Delphi Classics

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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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  Loyalty, Army, Winning

  Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Samuel Butler”, p.11

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• Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

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  God, Science, Men

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.273, The Floating Press

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• There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

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  Drinking, Asylums, Teetotalers

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• Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

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  Running, Heart, Enough

  Samuel Butler, “Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto II”

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• In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

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  Practice, Sometimes, Duty

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

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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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  Death, People, Dying

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

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  Education, Teaching, Men

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.

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  Sarcastic, Stupid, Born

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• How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

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  Children, Real, Parent

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.43, The Floating Press

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• There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

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  Truth, Honesty, Ideas

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

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• A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4240, Delphi Classics

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• Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

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  Failure, Adversity, Men

  'The Way of All Flesh' (1903) ch. 5

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• It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.

  Samuel Butler

  Success, Opportunity, Men

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