The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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