287 ordspråk av Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler föddes den 8 december 1835 och dog den 18 juni 1902 - English writer
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 To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

 To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.

 To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes

 To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it

 To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched

 Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.

 Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

 Virgil was no good because Tennyson ran him, and as for Tennyson - well, Tennyson goes without saying.

 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.

 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.

 We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself

 We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire

 We think as we do, mainly because other people think so

 What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, "I bet that my Redeemer liveth."

 What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year.


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