Samuel Butler – “Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.…”
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Samuel Butler best Communication Quotes – “Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.”
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Samuel Butler best Communication Quotes – “Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.”
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Samuel Butler best Faith Quotes – “What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.”
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Samuel Butler best Faith Quotes – “You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”
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Samuel Butler best Experience Quotes – “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
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Samuel Butler best Dreams Quotes – “Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.”
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Samuel Butler best Death Quotes – “If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”
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Samuel Butler best Death Quotes – “To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
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Samuel Butler best Death Quotes – “There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.”
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Samuel Butler best Death Quotes – “Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.”
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Samuel Butler best Chance Quotes – “People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.”
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Samuel Butler best Business Quotes – “All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
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Samuel Butler best Best Quotes – “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
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Samuel Butler best Beauty Quotes – “To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.”
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Samuel Butler best Art Quotes – “Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
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Samuel Butler best Art Quotes – “The history of art is the history of revivals.”