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“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Ignorance #Character #Pride
“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Motivational
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Life #Educational #Learning
“Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Integrity #Grateful #Character
“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Freedom #Book #Soul
“To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Love #Life #History
“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Fear #Halloween #Inspiration
“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Faith #Motivation #Littles
“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Life #Motivational #Happiness
“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Life #Success #Music
“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Dog #Humorous #Personality
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Life #Happiness #Fear
“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Funny #Friendship #Sarcastic
“It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Love #Money #Roots
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Life #Wisdom #Art
“An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.”
-- Samuel Butler

#God #Sorry #Book
“It is tact that is golden, not silence.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Silence #Golden #Programming
“Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Love #Life #Character
“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Inspirational #Motivational #Music
“When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Writing #Men #Years
“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Home
“If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Honesty #Life And Love #Years
“It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Anger #Gains #Debate
“Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Divorce #Religion #Church
“The history of art is the history of revivals.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Art #Architecture #Revival
“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Men #Boredom #Bored
“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Inspirational #Moving #Religion
“Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Clothes #Mind #Body
“Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Running #Evil #Water
“There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.”
-- Samuel Butler

#Funny #Death #Men

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