There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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 habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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