Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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