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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

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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

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Excess
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy — but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler

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Argument & Debate
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Other Quotes from
Adversity
category

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. Psalms 126:5 – Bible

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Adversity

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Adversity

I bear a little more than I can bear. – Elinor Hoyt Wylie

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Adversity

Hardship is best sailed with a heart ship. – Terri Guillemets

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Adversity

Random Quotes

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine…. Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. – William Osler (1849–1919)

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Medical

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. – D. Elton Trueblood

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Faith

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity. – Caroline Kennedy

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mom

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP. – Julie Burchill

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Love :: Relationships