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Quotes of Samuel Butler 1862-1947 American Educationist
Samuel Butler Photo and Biography
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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. (books - reading)
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. (death and dying)
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. (christians and chris)
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. (common sense)
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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death. (death and dying)
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. (christians and chris)
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (conscience)
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. (dogs)
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. (culture)
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. (cheerfulness)
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. (bores and boredom)
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. (death and dying)
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper. (debate)
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. (fathers)
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. (death and dying)
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. (friends and friendsh)
Eating is touch carried to the bitter end. (food and eating)
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. (excess)
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. (genius)
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. (enjoyment)
God cannot alter the past, but historians can. (history and historia)
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. (home)
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. (friends and friendsh)
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. (faith)
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. (god)
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