We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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