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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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