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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

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Excess
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Samuel Butler
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Money
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Samuel Butler
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Other Quotes from
Adversity
category

The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks. – Fred Beck

Category:
Adversity

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
Adversity

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. – The Houghton Line, November 1965

Category:
Adversity

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991

Category:
Adversity

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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. – Henry Miller

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. – Baruch Spinoza

Category:
alone

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said “Parking Fine.” – Tommy Cooper

Category:
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Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. – Le Corbusier

Category:
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