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

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

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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. – Socrates

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When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. – African Proverb

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