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

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

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Excess
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Adversity
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We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?” unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. – Author Unknown

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Adversity

It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. – William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

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Adversity

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. – English Proverb

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Adversity

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. – Erich Fromm

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Adversity

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Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you’ve grown, lifting. – Rumi

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Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. – Cornelia Otis Skinner

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In an underdeveloped country, don’t drink the water; in a developed country, don’t breathe the air. – Changing Times magazine

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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. – Samuel Richardson

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