The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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