"The function of vice is to keep virtue……" — Samuel Butler
"The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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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 Bounds Quotes
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one of 239 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
— Arthur Ashe
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
— John O. Brennan
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Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days,…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
— Florence Nightingale
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
— Robert Browning
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Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.
— William Shakespeare
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I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff…
— Cary Middlecoff
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A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
— Confucius
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of…
— Luigi Pirandello
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Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed,…
— John Calvin
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