SAMUEL BUTLER QUOTES

English poet & satirist (1612-1680)

She that with poetry is won
Is but a desk to write upon.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Hudibras


For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which like ships they steer their courses.

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He that is down can fall no lower.

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Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

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Hudibras

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What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year.
And that which was prov'd true before,
Prove false again? Two hundred more.

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Hudibras


For Justice, though she's painted blind,
Is to the weaker side inclin'd.

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So in the wicked there's no vice
Of which the saints have not a spice.

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Compound for sins they are inclin'd to,
By damning those they have no mind to.

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No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.

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He ne'er considered it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay forth
No more upon it than 'twas worth;
But as he got it freely, so
He spent it frank and freely too:
For saints themselves will sometimes be,
Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.

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Cry out upon the stars for doing
Ill offices, to cross their wooing.

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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Hudibras