You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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