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Samuel Butler Quotes: To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
         

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.


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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.



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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.



If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.



Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.



Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.



Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.



Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.



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.

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.



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

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



Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.





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Everyone wants to be an "expert" on social media and share their opinion behind the keyboard.

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The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

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We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.



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I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.



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If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.



Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.



And kind the voice and glad the eyes That welcome my return at night.

And kind the voice and glad the eyes That welcome my return at night.




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