Quote by Samuel Butler
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. – Samuel Butler

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A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. – Samuel Butler

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Medical
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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

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Wise Words
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau

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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Dreams

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. – Jack Kerouac

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Dreams

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow. – Leon Redbone

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Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying. – Martin Luther

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Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us. – Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ

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Relationships

Life only starts when love comes. – From the movie Bill of Divorcement, 1932

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Love

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. – Laurence Binyon

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Breathing