British - Poet | December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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