The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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