#be

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ↗

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#best #care #enjoy #enjoyed #god

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#before #clear #done #god #him

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#evil #love #money #quite #root

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#amiable #being #care #clever #either

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#done #easy #forgive #least #like

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

— Samuel Butler

#bet #betting #faith #i #kind

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#idleness #men #sin #some #some men

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#aesthetically #beautiful #beautifully #captured #comic

I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach. ↗