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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.
By Samuel Butler
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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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.
By Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
By Samuel Butler
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
By Samuel Butler
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
By Samuel Butler
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
By Samuel Butler
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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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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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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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
By Samuel Butler