Quote by Samuel Butler
The course of true anything never does run smooth. - Samuel Butler

The course of true anything never does run smooth. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule. – Samuel Butler

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Rules
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Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

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Music
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Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. – Stanislaus I, Maxims

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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. – Edmund Burke, The Revolution in France, 1790

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Adversity

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. – Seneca

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Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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Fear of the future is worse than ones present fortune. – Quintilian

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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. – Aristotle

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The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today – the need to transition from Me First to We First thinking. – Simon Mainwaring

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