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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

Inspirational, Motivational, Music

Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.57, Samuel Butler

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Samuel Butler

Inspirational, Moving, Religion

Samuel Butler (2013). “Erewhon Revisited”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Samuel Butler

Inspirational, Praise, Advantage

Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 34

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Samuel Butler

Inspirational, Education, Fall

Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4163, Delphi Classics