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Samuel Butler Quotes
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My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression makes them more pregnant and they breed new notes (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely (Samuel Butler Quotes)
After having spent years striving to be accurate, we must spend as many more in discovering when and how to be inaccurate (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Art has no end in view save the emphasising and recording in the most effective way some strongly felt interest or affection (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The composer is seldom a great theorist; the theorist is never a great composer. Each is equally fatal to and essential in the other (Samuel Butler Quotes)
If a man has not studied painting, or at any rate black and white drawing, his eyes are wild; learning to draw tames them. The first step towards taming the eyes is to teach them not to see too much (Samuel Butler Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success (Samuel Butler Quotes)
There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know (Samuel Butler Quotes)
He who would propagate an opinion must begin by making sure of his ground and holding it firmly. There is as little use in trying to breed from weak opinion as from other weak stock (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognised for some time (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organised and more naturally cohesive (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Nothing will ever die so long as it knows what to do under the circumstances, in other words so long as it knows its business (Samuel Butler Quotes)
They are like persons met upon a journey; I think them very agreeable at first but soon find, as a rule, that I am tired of them (Samuel Butler Quotes)
It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The evil that men do lives after them. Yes, and a good deal of the evil that they never did as well (Samuel Butler Quotes)
There are two classes, those who want to know and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so (Samuel Butler Quotes)
I am not sure that I do not begin to like the correction of a mistake, even when it involves my having shown much ignorance and stupidity, as well as I like hitting on a new idea (Samuel Butler Quotes)
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead (Samuel Butler Quotes)
To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The world will, in the end, follow only those who have despised as well as served it (Samuel Butler Quotes)
When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me (Samuel Butler Quotes)
It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: There are such things every day but we very seldom see them (Samuel Butler Quotes)