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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Hurry Indigestion Reap Sow
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Alone Bread Catchword Creature Live Man Primarily Upen
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Gift Habit Look Much Nature Offer Spirit
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Courage Fera Keep Other Share Yourself
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Ling Love Other Serve So
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Logical Once Pattern Sensuous Web
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Become Capable End Life Only
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Clock During Fortune Frighten Mind Misfortune Pace Private Quite
By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Anonymous Being Benefit Happy Upon World
Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Baby Buddhist Feel Impression Make Our Own Same Vegetarian Yet
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Disquisition Follow Forgive People Philosophical Through
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Century Glaringly Good Nineteenth People Person Pretty Well
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Among Country Good Idea Make Moral Neighbor People Should
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Best Find Friend Hornet Traveler Wilderness World
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Could Else Joke One People Read Share Some Want Yourself
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Impossible Likely Man Portrait Posterity Respect Scene Spirit

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