Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care...

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care...

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without...

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without...

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good...

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good...

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely...

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that...

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

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

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

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep...

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep...

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should...

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should...

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened...

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened...

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets...

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets...