British - Poet | December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902
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.
Samuel Butler
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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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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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.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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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.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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