"The course of true anything never does run…" — Samuel Butler
"The course of true anything never does run smooth."
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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 Anything Never Quotes
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you…
— Winston Churchill
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The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never…
— Keith Haring
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Never run away from anything. Never!
— Winston Churchill
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If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
— Tillie Olsen
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Make your mistakes with confidence. It is the only way you are going to learn anything. Never be afraid to…
— John Kessel
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Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills…
— Albert J. Nock
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I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something...
— Keith Haring
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I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.
— Steven Morrissey
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If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the…
— Thomas Merton
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You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and…
— Charles Dickens
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