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Sentence count:213+55Posted:2016-07-15Updated:2026-10-12
Synonym: just, merely, only, simply. Similar words: bat, bet, bug, butt, buy, cut, gut, nut. Meaning: [bʌt;bət]  adv. and nothing more. 
121) If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certaintics. 
122) It is good to have money to buy things that money can buy,but it is better not to lose things money cannot buy. 
123) Knowledge is a Treasure, but Practice is the key to it. 
124) There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. 
125) Perhaps you can't control your job, but you may be able to make other changes in your life. 
126) I know no such thing as genius,[sentencedict.com] it is nothing but labour and diligence. 
127) Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step a time. 
128) That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. 
129) A word is no arrow, but it can pierce the heart. 
130) It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool preserves in the error. 
131) The fool does think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. 
132) Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die. 
133) The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
134) Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the end. 
135) If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth, but, if poor, it is not so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat. 
136) In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. 
137) The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high. 
138) He is immortal 6, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible 7voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion 8and sacrifice9 and endurance. 
139) Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp. 
140) Ideas are like the stars --- we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them. 
141) Don't part withyour illusions . When they are gone you may still exist , but you have ceased to live. 
142) Thereis no wool so white but a dyer can make it black. 
143) Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace. 
144) The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. 
145) Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. 
146) We should put aside and postpone all other reforms; that we have but one task-----the istruction of the people, the diffusion of education, the ecourgement of science----on that day a great step will have then been taken in our rgenerion. 
147) I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. 
148) Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. 
149) The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken. 
150) On the great clock of time there is but one word, "Now". 
More similar words: bat, bet, bug, butt, buy, cut, gut, nut, out, put, auto, bad, ban, bar, bay, be, beg, belt, best, bid, big, boat, bolt, boot, both, bow, boy, buck, bulb, bulk. 
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