I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere 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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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 one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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