"From a worldly point of view, there is……" — Samuel Butler
"From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right."
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Samuel Butler
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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 Always Right Quotes
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People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner…
— Jim Brown
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No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are…
— Harry S. Truman
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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.
— Marshall Field
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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.
— Janet Morris
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In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when…
— David Landes
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Everything in this world happens for a reason yet nothing in this world comes free. Hard work, endurance, determination, persistence,…
— Unknown Author
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The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.
— David Robertson
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Believing that your parents are always right.
— Paulo Coelho
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