Quotes by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

English poet

Alive from: 1612-1680

Category: Poets (Contemporary)

Quotes 31 till 45 of 131.

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  For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

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  Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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  From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

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  God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

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  Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.

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  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.

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  He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

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  I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

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  I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

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  I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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  I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

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

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  If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virue.

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  If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.