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

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"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers, we more than gain in fruits."

- Samuel Butler

Balance

"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits"

- Samuel Butler

Balance

"Friendship is like money—easier made than kept."

- Samuel Butler

Relationships

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

- Samuel Butler

Reflection

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

- Samuel Butler

Gratitude

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

Creativity

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

Creativity

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

Creativity