“ Nothing is ever any good unless it is thwarted with self-distrust though in the main self-confident. ”
Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912). copy citation
| Author | Samuel Butler |
|---|---|
| Source | The Note-Books of Samuel Butler |
| Topic | distrust good |
| Date | 1912 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6173/6173-h/6173-h.htm |
Context
“and that other thing which I said about Andromeda in Life and Habit, [225] he remarked that he wished it had been so in the poets.
I looked at him. “Ballard,” I said, “I also am ‘the poets.’”
Self-Confidence
Nothing is ever any good unless it is thwarted with self-distrust though in the main self-confident.
Wandering
When the inclination is not obvious, the mind meanders, or maunders, as a stream in a flat meadow.
Poverty
I shun it because I have found it so apt to become contagious; but I fancy my constitution is more seasoned against it now than formerly.”
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