"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold,……" — Samuel Butler
"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy."
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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler has 228 quotes on this site.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he…
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More Alloy Quotes
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one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of…
— James Madison
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After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there…
— Obafemi Awolowo
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I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of…
— George Washington
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I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery
— Henry Bessemer
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I am of the theory that all of our transcendental connections, anything we're drawn to, be it a person, a…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through…
— Randolph Sinks Foster
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Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance…
— Dan Simmons
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Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
— Dan Gable
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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures…
— Anthony Trollope
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Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum…
— Tim Burton
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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men…
— Abraham Lincoln
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If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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