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

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. – Samuel Butler

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Logic
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Other Quotes from
Adversity
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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. – Robert Service

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Adversity

May you get what you wish for. – Old Chinese curse

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Adversity

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell

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Adversity

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. – Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

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Adversity

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The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. – Hart Crane

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Failure

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world. – Arthur Smith

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funny

O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind. – Bhagavad Gita

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Spirituality

My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free. – Cat Cora

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dad