"Human life is as evanescent as the morning……" — Samuel Butler
"Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning."
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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler has 228 quotes on this site.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he…
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More Dew Quotes
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one of 260 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
— Wendell Berry
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread…
— Geraldine Brooks
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
— Robert Browning
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes…
— Lord Byron
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
— Lord Byron
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For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is…
— David Fairchild
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
— Lord Byron
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I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.
— William Shakespeare
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
— Robert Greene
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Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....
— William C. Bryant
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Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being…
— John Bunyan
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