Quote by Samuel Butler
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insi

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. – Samuel Butler

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Faith
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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. – Samuel Butler

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work
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The road to hell is paved with adverbs. – Stephen King

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them. – Blaise Pascal

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