Quote by Samuel Butler
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor rememberi

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

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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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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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. – The Epic of Gilgamesh

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People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death. – Alveda King

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