Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon...

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon...

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our...

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our...

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which...

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which...

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and...

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and...

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to...

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to...

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...

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to...

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to...

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the...

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the...

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the...

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the...

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of...

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of...

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him...

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him...

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.