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Category Archive: December 4

Samuel Butler Quote: “Is life worth living? This is…”

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

October 26, 2021 1835, British, December 4, Quotes by Poets, Samuel Butler

Thomas Carlyle Quote: “To reform a world, to reform…”

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

October 21, 2021 1795, December 4, Quotes by Philosophers, Scottish, Thomas Carlyle

Samuel Butler Quote: “A skilful leech is better far…”

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

October 15, 2021 1835, British, December 4, Quotes by Poets, Samuel Butler

Thomas Carlyle Quote: “No man lives without jostling and…”

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

October 14, 2021 1795, December 4, Quotes by Philosophers, Scottish, Thomas Carlyle

Rainer Maria Rilke Quote: “For one human being to love…”

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

October 14, 2021 1875, December 4, German, Quotes by Poets, Rainer Maria Rilke

Thomas Carlyle Quote: “All great peoples are conservative….”

All great peoples are conservative.

October 8, 2021 1795, December 4, Quotes by Philosophers, Scottish, Thomas Carlyle

Samuel Butler Quote: “The great pleasure of a dog…”

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

October 3, 2021 1835, British, December 4, Quotes by Poets, Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Quote: “Logic is like the sword – …”

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

September 30, 2021 1835, British, December 4, Quotes by Poets, Samuel Butler

Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Happy the people whose annals are…”

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

September 19, 2021 1795, December 4, Quotes by Philosophers, Scottish, Thomas Carlyle

A. Scott Berg Quote: “I think a biography is only…”

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

September 17, 2021 1949, A. Scott Berg, American, December 4, Quotes by Historians

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