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

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Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. – Maltbie D. Babcock

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Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. – Lucy Larcom

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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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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride. – Martin Luther

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