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Quote by Samuel Butler
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of light

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler

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Fear
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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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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. – Barbara Bush

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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. – Denis Waitley

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Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough. – Emily Dickinson

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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. – George Santayana

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And now it has risen above the massive and lofty tree, and throws its pleasant shadow down upon the earth—pleasant shadow that paces along the meadows, leaving behind a greater brilliancy on tree, and grass, and hedge, and flower than what, for a moment, it had eclipsed. – William Smith, Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil, 1862

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My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. – Merton Miller

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