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" Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. "
Samuel Butler
Nature
Dew
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" Grief is never something you get over. You don't wake up one morning and say, 'I've conquered that; now I'm moving on.' It's something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity. "
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" If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. "
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" Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. "
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" The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. "
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" When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day. "
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" Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen. "
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" Life is one long process of getting tired. "
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" People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. "
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" All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. "
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" The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. "
Samuel Butler
Him
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" Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. "
Samuel Butler
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" No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. "
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" It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. "
Samuel Butler
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" A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. "
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" When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. "
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Him
Doubt
Man
" We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. "
Samuel Butler
Money
Atoms
Never
" It is tact that is golden, not silence. "
Samuel Butler
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" Self-preservation is the first law of nature. "
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Nature
" Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. "
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Doing
" Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. "
Emily Dickinson
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" People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. "
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Lucky
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" They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' "
Samuel Butler
Man
They Say
Test
" Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. "
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Conclusions
Drawing
Life
" An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. "
Henry David Thoreau
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Blessing
" I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. "
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" Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. "
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" Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. "
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" Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. "
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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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Never
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