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And poets by their sufferings grow, as if there were no more to do, to make a poet excellent, but only want and discontent (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A skillful leech is better far than half an hundred men of war, so he appeared; and by his skill, no less than dint of sword, could kill (Samuel Butler Quotes)
And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull that's empty when the moon is full; such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The trenchant blade, toledo trusty, for want of fighting was grown rusty, and ate into itself, for lack of somebody to hew and hack (Samuel Butler Quotes)
He that imposes an oath makes it, not he that for convenience takes it; then how can any man be said to break an oath he never made? (Samuel Butler Quotes)
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. and that which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred more (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The hollow hearted, disaffected, and close malignant are detected; Who lay their lives and fortunes down, For pledges to secure our own (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Cause grace and virtue are within prohibited degrees of kin; and therefore no true saint allows they shall be suffered to espouse (Samuel Butler Quotes)
With crosses, relics, crucifixes, beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes, the tools of working our salvation by mere mechanic operation (Samuel Butler Quotes)
With books and money placed for show like nest eggs to make clients lay, and for his false opinion pay (Samuel Butler Quotes)
It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Nothing's more dull and negligent than an old, lazy government, that knows no interest of state, but such as serves a present strait (Samuel Butler Quotes)
I loved no king since forty one when prelacy went down, a cloak and band I then put on, and preached against the crown (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Fear is an ague, that forsakes and haunts, by fits, those whom it takes; and they'll opine they feel the pain and blows they felt, today, again (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Honour is like that glassy bubble, that finds philosophers such trouble, whose least part crack'd, the whole does fly and wits are crack'd to find out why (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The feeblest vermin can destroy, as sure as stoutest beasts of prey; and only with their eyes and breath Infect, and poison men to death (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The souls of women are so small, that some believe they've none at all; or if they have, like cripples, still they've but one faculty, the will (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Her voice, the music of the spheres, so loud, it deafens mortals' ears; as wise philosophers have thought, and that's the cause we hear it not (Samuel Butler Quotes)
He that has but impudence, to all things has a fair pretence; and put among his wants but shame, to all the world may lay his claim (Samuel Butler Quotes)
That conscience approves of and attests such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Butler's Law of Progress: all progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income (Samuel Butler Quotes)
For blocks are better cleft with wedges, tan tools of sharp or subtle edges, and dullest nonsense has been found by some to be the most profound (Samuel Butler Quotes)
As quick as lightning, in the breach just in the place where honour's lodged, as wise philosophers have judged, because a kick in that place more hurts honour than deep wounds before (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Bloody wars at first began, the artificial plague of man, that from his own invention rise, to scourge his own iniquities (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm, but draw their swords to do them good, as doctors cure by letting blood (Samuel Butler Quotes)
And when the fight becomes a chase, those win the day that win the race; and that which would not pass in fights, has done the feat with easy flights (Samuel Butler Quotes)
He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Tis strange how some men's tempers suit, like bawd and brandy, with dispute, that for their own opinions stand fast, only to have them claw'd and canvass'd (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Authority intoxicates, and makes mere sots of magistrates; the fumes of it invade the brain, and make men giddy, proud, and vain (Samuel Butler Quotes)