Samuel Butler

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#enough #fools #knaves #live #more

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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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. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#childish #define #deny #ever #god

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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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. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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