Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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.
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Perpetual 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 not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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