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Schriftsteller, Maler, Komponist, Philologe, "Erewon Revisited", "Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont" (England, 1835 - 1902).

Samuel Butler · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Samuel Butler wäre heute 188 Jahre, 4 Monate, 15 Tage oder 68.803 Tage alt.

Geboren am 04.12.1835 in Langar/Nottinghamshire
Gestorben am 18.06.1902 in London
Sternzeichen: ♐ Schütze

• Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

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• For justice, though she's painted blind, / Is to the weaker side inclined.

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• For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most have leaned to excess rather than to ascetism.

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• For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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• From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

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• God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
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• Happiness and misery depend not upon how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.

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• He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still.

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• I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

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• If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success.

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• If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

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• If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

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• In law nothing is certain but expense.

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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.

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• It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
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• It is the functon of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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• It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.

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• Jesus! with all thy faults I love thee still.

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• Learning, that cobweb of the brain, Profane, erroneous, and vain.

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