Samuel Butler: All things are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image on them till they have been developed.

All things are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image on th — Samuel Butler

All things are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image on them till they have been developed.

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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure — Samuel Butler
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. — Samuel Butler
But I did not yield at once; I enjoyed the process of being argued with too keen — Samuel Butler
Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of pr — Samuel Butler
It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which — Francis Bacon
Asks the Possible to the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling place?" "In the dre — Rabindranath Tagore
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. — Abraham Lincoln
For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconv — Aristotle
I am a part of all that I have met. — Alfred Tennyson
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Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold — Swami Vivekananda
Of several luminous bodies of equal size and brilliancy and at an equal distance — Leonardo da Vinci