Quote by Samuel Butler
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the inst

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler

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Seasons
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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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Food
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? – Samuel Butler

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Marriage
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Other Quotes from
Experience
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln

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Experience

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. – Woodrow Wilson

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Experience

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. – Aldous Huxley

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Experience

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. – Muriel Rukeyser

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Experience

Random Quotes

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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Self

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day. – Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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alone

I have a family and two cats I get up with my kids early in the morning. – Vanna White

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Morning

You got to sing like you dont need the money; Love like youll never get hurt; You got to dance like nobodys watchin; Its gotta come from the heart if you want it to work. – Susanna Clark

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Attitude