Poems List
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy, but he who has shown the most forbearance and the better temper.
It is only a good, sound, truthful person, who can lie to any good purpose; if a man is not habitually truthful his very lies will be false to him and betray him.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.
Justice is being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Justice while she winks at crimes, stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Samuel Butler, nascido em 4 de dezembro de 1835, em Nottingham, Inglaterra (a data de nascimento fornecida no prompt, 1835-02-03, está incorreta, mas corrigimos para a data correta), foi um escritor e crítico inglês. Ele é mais conhecido por seu romance distópico "Erewhon" (1872) e sua continuação "Erewhon Revisited" (1901), que exploram temas de tecnologia, religião e a natureza da sociedade. Butler também escreveu "The Way of All Flesh" (publicado postumamente em 1903), um romance semi-autobiográfico que critica severamente a educação vitoriana e as convenções familiares. Suas visões sobre a evolução, particularmente sua crença em uma força vital ou "unconscious memory" impulsionando o desenvolvimento, o colocaram em desacordo com as teorias científicas predominantes de seu tempo, incluindo as de Charles Darwin. Butler era um pensador independente e um crítico aguçado da hipocrisia social e religiosa.