For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
More Quotes from Samuel Butler:
There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.Samuel Butler
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Samuel Butler
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
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