British - Poet | December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler
WorkThinkYouLookLostDone
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
LegacyDieYouHimLeftDecent
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
GodFightNameAtheistBetweenSome
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
HealthMoneyManReputationLose
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
FatherMusicWiseParentsOwnLike
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.
GoodPeopleWorldSpeakDareSorrow
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
LiveBestWordsWorstGotMust
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.
MoneyBrainLongEnemyWantNever
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
DeathManNothingLittleOwnOnce
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
GoodEvilDoingDoing GoodMayCome
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
DeathKindGoingOnlyAbroadLarger
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
PeopleWishOutKeepGetMine
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