To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONGive us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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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 never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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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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