To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOne 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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Give 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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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