The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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