Quotes by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

English poet

Lived from: 1835 - 1902

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 4 december 1835 Died: 18 june 1902

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  • We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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  • We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
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  • What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, ''I bet that my Redeemer liveth.''
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  • When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
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  • When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
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  • When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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  • Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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  • Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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  • You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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  • All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
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  • All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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