No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. Samuel Butler More Quotes by Samuel Butler More Quotes From Samuel Butler If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. Samuel Butler life-and-love honesty years 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 training men world The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. Samuel Butler advantage praise inspirational A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. Samuel Butler commoners virtue gold There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. Samuel Butler men funny death Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. Samuel Butler nature flower inspiring To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. Samuel Butler pain compassion beauty Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. Samuel Butler want writing book Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler animal laughing men Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. Samuel Butler able wise men There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. Samuel Butler gracefulness goodness God cannot alter the past, though historians can. Samuel Butler education history past Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds Samuel Butler genius kind might It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. Samuel Butler consciousness action spring Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. Samuel Butler money order long Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. Samuel Butler etc remember thinking 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 band people religion 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. Samuel Butler evil art interesting From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. Samuel Butler point-of-view views mistake [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. Samuel Butler metaphysics mind doe
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