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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

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

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Truth
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To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

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Life
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Other Quotes from
Adversity
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909

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Adversity

Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Adversity

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. – Russian Proverb

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Adversity

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish… but battle on. – J.K. Rowling

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Adversity

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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. – Epictetus

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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness. – Ted Nugent

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In the late 70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didnt do TV and vice versa, but thats gone now. – Robert Carlyle

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