You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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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 a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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